Quotes About Passion

in some ways I feel that my ability to love and to be passionate died on that battlefield in the war. I sort of shut off who I had been before and became an observer rather than a participant.

thog no girly-orc, thog manly-orc who just happens to like figure skating!

If you want to advance a private interest, turn it into a public cause.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

had liked it so well that she had made

Science is not the result of dispassionate machines spitting out Truth; it involves passionate humans pursuing truth and fame and next week's paycheck, while satisfying curiosity at the same time.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight--how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

Much more do they want that moral perfection which the blessed partake of; those holy dispositions of mind; that cheerful readiness to do the will of God; that perfect rectitude of all their actions: instead of these, they have that perverseness of will, that loathing of good, that love to evil, that violence of passion, which they had on earth.

Anyway, there were no bigger fans in town than Chet and Bub Dawson. (Chet was a diehard K-State fan. He'd claim: "If KU was playin' Russia, I'd root for Russia.")

working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a ride!

If you aren't having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it's time to try something else.

Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure.

Hard work and fun is what life is all about. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy.