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Quotes About Passion

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
~ Bill Shoemaker
An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.
~ Wayne Dyer
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Stanley Kunitz
It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
~ Rumi
I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
~ Claude Monet
Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .
~ Rumi
Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I'd rather dance than eat.
~ Eleanor Powell
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
~ Meagan Good
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
~ Michelangelo
Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
~ Napoleon Hill
There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.
~ Gautama Buddha
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
~ Don Henley
Jesus cares more about desire than about competence
~ Mike Yaconelli
So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.
~ Price Pritchett
You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.
~ Georges Bataille
It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
~ Alan Watts
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
~ Denis Diderot
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.
~ Teresa Amabile
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
~ Robert Breault
The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.
~ John Cowper Powys