Quotes About Passion

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'