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Quotes About Passion

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
~ Vittorio De Sica
When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
~ Mickey Mantle
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
~ Brad Renfro
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
~ Greg LeMond
It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!
~ Sam Cooke
Music-making as a means of getting money is hell
~ Gustav Holst
Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.
~ Jerome Kern
Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.
~ Chuck Bednarik
Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
The passion for money is never fickle.
~ Mason Cooley
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.
~ Jhene Aiko
Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made
~ Ted Shawn
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
~ Eric S. Raymond
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.
~ Rumi
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
~ Larry Page
Money and art are far apart.
~ Langston Hughes
If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.
~ Sarah Caldwell
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.
~ James Altucher
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
~ Glenn Miller
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
~ Tim Robbins
The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.
~ Marshall Goldsmith