passion quotes

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I do my job like I breathe.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

We love things we love what they are.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I only act from my heart.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.