Great Passion Quotes - Page 2

• You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Leadership, Passion

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• I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

  Richard Estes

  Passion, Artist, Thinking

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• A great passion has no partner.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Passion, Partners

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Passion, Marine, Issues

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Passion, Cutting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Ends, Misunderstanding

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Soul, Events

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.190, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Passion, Feelings, Soul

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Success, Hope, Stars

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• Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small-minded.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Passion, Creativity

  "Diderot". Book by Otis Fellows, 1977.

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

  Lynn Abbey

  Passion, Historical, Literature

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• Quelque e  tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Men, Spirit

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• Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Passion, Soul

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Creative, Energy

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Inspirational, Passion, Wish

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• With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Peace, Passion

  "What Donald Trump Can Teach Us About Self-Esteem (Even If You Hate His Guts)" by Laura Tong, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2016.

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• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Passion, Destiny, Soul

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

  Joss Whedon

  Life, Hurt, Peace

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Passion)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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