A compilation of quotes and reflections on one of the most powerful emotions of the human being. Let’s see which celebrities have talked about passion and its effects on humanity.
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Great quotes and reflections on passion
Below you can read a list of the most iconic quotes about passion, which will motivate you to move forward with your goals.
1. If passion, if madness did not ever pass through souls… What would life be worth? (Jacinto Benavente)
We always have a moment of passion and madness.
2. The great passions are incurable diseases. What could cure them would make them truly dangerous. (Goeth)
There is nothing that cures a passion.
3. Entrepreneurship is making what you are passionate about in life the fundamental thing, so that you can get the most out of it and make it evolve. (Sir Richard Branson)
Always bet on what makes you happy.
4. Turn your sigh to me, and I will rise and fall from your chest, I will be entangled in your heart, I will go out into the air to re-enter. And I’ll be in this game for a lifetime. (Gabriela Mistral)
Love is one of the great passions that man has.
5. There is constant talk against the passions. They are considered the source of all human evil, but it is forgotten that they are also the source of all pleasure. (Denis Diderot)
For many people, passion is a multifaceted topic.
6. I want to drink you like I drink coffee: fasting, boiling and alone. Don’t worry about sweet things, that’s what kisses are for.
Very seductive phrase that refers to carnal passion.
7. Find something that you are passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. (Julia Child)
When you have something that you really like and feel a passion for it, don’t let it go, fight without stopping.
8. I have always believed that success for anyone is based on drive, dedication and desire, but for me, it is also about trust and faith. (Stephen Curry)
Dedication, effort, trust and dedication are the keys to success.
9. Passion often makes the wisest of men mad, and often makes the craziest wise too. (François de La Rochefoucauld phrase)
Passion has different effects on people.
10. All passions are good as long as one owns them, and all are bad when they enslave us. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
We must not let passions take over our lives.
11. The passions are like the winds, which are necessary to give movement to everything, although they are often the cause of hurricanes. (Bernard LeBovier de Fontenelle)
If we do not know how to manage passions, they can become dangerous.
12. Giving up my passion is like tearing a living part of my heart with my nails. (Gabriele d’Annunzio)
Passion is a fundamental part of life.
13. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and you have to rebuild it every morning before breakfast. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Sexual relations are essential within a couple.
14. You will not find any passion playing the minimum; settling for a life less than you are capable of living. (Nelson Mandela)
Betting on a better quality of life is a way of exercising passion.
15. Whatever you do, do it with passion.
In everything you undertake, do not forget to include passion.
16. It is necessary to rise with the wings of enthusiasm. If you reason, you will never fly. (Anatole France)
There are times when passion is not reasoned, but will never be put into practice.
17. A goal is not the same as a wish, and this is an important distinction to make. You may have a desire that you do not intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t want to act on. (Tom Morris)
Always bet on having a goal to reach.
18. Passion is a chronic emotion. (Theodule-Armand Ribot)
If you don’t know how to stop passion, it can give you bad times.
19. Anything is possible, as long as you really believe in it. (Ashley Qualls)
If you believe everything is possible.
20. There is no fire like passion: there is no evil like hatred. (Buddha)
Every feeling that you do not know how to control is an imminent danger.
21. With passions one is never bored; Without them, it is idiotized. (Stendhal)
Enthusiasm is what motivates life.
22. There are passions that prudence ignites and that would not exist without the risk they cause. (Jules d’Aurevilly)
Good sense induces many passions.
23. If something burns in your soul with purpose and desire, it is your obligation to be reduced to ashes. Any other form of existence will be another boring book in the library of life. (Charles Bukowski)
If you don’t put passion into what you do, nothing is worth it.
24. We let ourselves be guided more by our convictions than by what is rational, because reason told us that it was impossible. (Daniel Eck)
If we think a lot, we may not achieve anything.
25. And when the mountain of life is hard and long and high and full of abysses, love the immensity that is of burning love and burn in the fusion of our breasts themselves! (Ruben Dario)
When we have a goal that is very difficult to achieve, put all your efforts and passion to achieve it.
26. Reason works slowly, and with so many aims, on so many principles, that at every moment it falls asleep or goes astray. Passion works in an instant. (BlaisePascal)
It refers to the way reason acts.
27. Turn your passion into a life project.
It always involves passion in every moment of life.
28. Passion is a chronic emotion. (Theodule-Armand Ribot)
You have to put love, feeling and, of course, passion in everything you do.
29. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others. (Ayn Rand)
Success lies in achieving what you want, without harming others.
30. Passion forces you to think in circles. (Oscar Wilde)
If you allow yourself to be governed by your passions, you will live forever in a vicious circle.
31. They are the impetus of the passions sliders of sanity, and there is the risk of getting lost. (Baltasar Gracian)
When you don’t have control over impulses, they can cause a lot of damage.
32. Love is the initiating power of life; Passion enables its permanence. (Anonymous)
If we do things with love and also add a touch of passion, success is guaranteed.
33. When you realize your potential is the moment when passion is born. (Zig Ziglar)
Knowing your potential, passion comes without calling it.
34. One of the biggest mistakes made is causing forced enthusiasm. You don’t choose your passions; Passions choose one. (Jeff Bezos)
Be careful of passions, they can be a danger.
35. I will leave you an illusion wrapped in a promise of eternal passion. (Alejandro Sanz)
The illusion is wrapped in a bit of passion.
36. Find your passion, whatever it is. Become her and let her become you and you will realize that great things will happen for you, because of you and thanks to you. (T. Alan Armstrong)
If you allow passion to go by your side without dominating you, then everything you do will be great.
37. Passion is what makes you have a Friday face every day.
When you live life with joy everything will be fine.
38. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never stop growing. (Anthony D’Angelo)
Seek knowledge and you will always grow.
39. What you are looking for is looking for you. (Rumi)
The path to success and yours go in the same direction.
40. The worst thing about passion is when it happens, when the end point of the endings is not followed by two ellipses. (Joaquin Sabina)
If you no longer feel passion, life turns gray.
41. Human passions, like beings and plants, are not formed in full light. Its first development needs the warm and closed darkness of the underworld of consciousness. (Leon Blum)
Passion must be cultivated.
42. A man without passions is so close to stupidity that he only needs to open his mouth to fall into it. (Seneca)
Without passion there is no life.
43. Passion can quickly slide into jealousy or even hatred. (Arthur Golden)
Just as it attracts good feelings, passion also generates harmful emotions.
44. It is possible to steal ideas, but no one can steal their implementation or passion for them. (Timothy Ferriss)
It doesn’t matter if they steal your ideas, they can never take away your passion.
45. Men are reasonable animals regulated by the impulse of passion. (AlexanderHamilton)
Passion regulates the life of man.
46. Nothing should disturb the equanimity of the spirit; even our passion, even our outbursts must be measured and weighed. (Francisco Ayala)
We all must learn to govern our passions.
47. Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things and challenge ourselves. Passion is and must always be the heart of courage. (Midori Komatsu)
Phrase that highlights the importance of passion in our lives.
48. Those who restrict their desire do so because it is weak enough to be restricted. (William Blake)
A person who limits his desires does not know the value of life.
49. Unfortunately, I use things as my passion dictates. (Pablo Picasso)
For many people, passion causes them to make many mistakes.
50. Slowly dies who avoids a passion and its whirlpool of emotions, precisely those that return the shine to the eyes and restore broken hearts. (Pablo Neruda)
Who does not feel passion is definitely dead.
51. Passion for man is a torrent; for women, an abyss. (Arenal Conception)
Women and men see passion differently.
52. Love is a passion that has friends in the garrison. (George Savile)
It refers to how love feeds on passion.
53. Live your passion, and what does that mean? It means that when you get up in the morning to go to work, every morning, you do so driven by the fact that you are going to do what is most important to you in this world. (Gary Vaynerchuck)
Every activity we do involves passion in it.
54. Love and desire are two different things; that not everything that is loved is desired, nor everything that is desired is loved. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Desire and love go hand in hand, but in many cases they do not mix.
55. Your purpose will point you in the right direction, but passion will be what drives you. (Travis MacAshan)
If you have a goal to achieve, the enthusiasm to achieve it is what encourages you to keep going.
56. Tell me What do you plan to achieve without passion?
Phrase that highlights that life without passion is worth nothing.
57. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember that you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars and to change the world. (Harriet Tubman)
If you have a dream, work hard to achieve it.
58. The desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, loved and admired by our fellow men is one of the earliest and most acute dispositions discovered in the heart of man. (John Adams)
We have grown up with the idea that others must approve of what we do.
59. Feminine passion is a dark jungle never fully explored, a jungle made both of infinite disinterest and of the jealous impetus of exclusive possession. (Gregory Maranon)
The world of a woman is something unknown.
60. One speaks incessantly against the passions. They are considered the source of all human evil, but it is forgotten that they are also the source of all pleasure. (Denis Diderot)
When you speak ill of another person, that is also a form of passion.
61. Envy, hatred, lust… all these passions have been thrown out of the soul so that it is nothing but a piece of ice? (Henry Moore)
It refers to passions that cause much harm.
62. If you feel like there is something out there that you should be doing, if you feel passionate about it, then stop wishing and just do it. (Wanda Skye)
If you feel like you want to do something, don’t just sit back, go out and find it.
63. If there is something that you are passionate about and you work hard, I believe that you will end up being successful. (Pierre Omidyar)
Never stop fighting for what you dream of.
64. And love, for it to be beautiful and true, has to have passion and madness. (Megan Maxwell)
Love without a touch of madness and passion is useless.
65. Passion will take men beyond themselves, their limitations and their failures. (Joseph Campbell)
Believe it or not, passion can lead a man to know how far he can go.
66. I, like Don Quixote, invent passions to exercise myself. (Voltaire)
We always have to look for things that motivate us to move forward.
67. Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can get in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone says. (Wayne Dyer)
If you listen carefully to what your heart tells you, you can go very far.
68. The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not on things we fear. (Brian Tracy)
Success consists of putting all the effort into what we want to achieve.
69. Whoever has a dominant passion, hates the human race based on it, because everyone seems to him, in relation to his passion, rivals or, at least, resistances. (Cesare Pavese)
There are people who judge taking their own passions as examples.
70. Man is truly great only when he acts on the impulse of the passions. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Well-conducted passions indisputably lead to success.
71. A man who has not passed through the hell of his passions has never overcome them. (Carl Gustaf Jung)
There are passions that lead to knowing hell.
72. You can not fake passion. (Barbara Corcorran)
The passion you feel cannot be simulated.
73. All the people I know who have achieved success with what they do, have achieved it because they are passionate about doing it. (Joe Penny)
Unquestionably, passion allows incredible things to be achieved.
74. For me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Many people see their jobs as exciting.
75. Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will realize that it is usually something that you are tremendously passionate about. (Steve Pavlina)
When you find your life plan, go for it.
76. There are no legitimate unions other than those governed by true passion. (Stendahl)
True passion is the one that dominates everything.
77. Enthusiasm is the daily bread of youth. Skepticism, the daily wine of old age. (Pearl S. Buck)
Young people bet on passion, while the elderly are more suspicious.
78. Desire is the absurdity that keeps open the infinity of possibility. (Wendy Farley)
We can achieve everything if we really want it.
79. Nothing great has been done in the world without a great passion. (Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Throughout history we see how passion has led to winning great battles.
80. False love is not immortal like true love; its light is extinguished as quickly as desire is extinguished. (Alexander Hamilton)
When desire goes out, love loses its strength.
81. Passions are the journeys of the heart. (Paul Morand)
The heart is what tells you what it is that you are passionate about, listen to it.
82. It is the duty of the soul to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself in its greatest passion. (Rebecca West)
Don’t think twice, surrender to your passion.
83. If you dedicate yourself to what you like and are passionate about, it is not necessary to have any master plan on how events are going to happen. (Mark Zuckerberg)
Doing everything with passion does not allow having a plan B.
84. The impetus of the passions are the sliders of sanity, and there is the risk of getting lost. (Baltazar Gracian)
When things are done in a rush, nothing comes to fruition.
85. I have no special talent. I’m just passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)
Phrase that refers to the importance that Einstein gave to curiosity.
86. Without passion, man is just a latent force that awaits a chance, like flint the clash of iron, to launch sparks of light. (Henry F. Amiel)
If we lose the passion, the chances of success are slim to none.
87. Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the meaning of your life and the purpose of your passion. (Jillian Michaels)
Constancy, effort and self-confidence is what leads to achieving dreams.
88. Desire never ceases to be insubordinate. (Sigmund Freud)
On many occasions the desire is rebellious and does not allow itself to be dominated.
89. You will only get tired of what you do not enjoy. You will only get tired of what you do not put passion into. (Emilio Duro)
If you do something that you are not passionate about, then you are wasting your time.
90. Do not undertake any work with the fury of passion: it is equivalent to going to sea in the middle of a storm. (Thomas Fuller)
A misused passion leads to great chaos.
91. If you don’t feel like you love what you do, you won’t do it with such conviction or passion. (Mia Hamm)
You must put love into every activity you do.
92. You have to fall in love with what you do, because every entrepreneur faces a lot of hard work and a lot of adversity. (KenField)
Any business requires effort and dedication. If you’re not willing, then it’s not what you want.
93. We cannot avoid passions, but we can overcome them. (Seneca)
When we can control the passions, the paths are open.
94. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from doing what excites you. (Oprah Winfrey)
If you feel an energy in what you do, work not to lose it.
95. Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. (Paul Vernon Busser)
If you see that when doing something you feel an internal explosion, the passion is present.
96. Passions make man live, wisdom only makes him last. (Chamford)
Reason and passion go their separate ways.
97. Rest in reason, move in passion. (Khalil Gibran)
Do things with awareness and follow your passion.
98. Find out what you can do, and do it better than anyone else. (Jason Goldberg)
When you already know what you do very well, focus on them and give your best.
99. The important thing is to transform passion into character. (FranzKafka)
If you learn to master your passion, then you already have a part of the way covered.
100. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. (Denis Diderot)
Put all your effort into being happy.
To the classic question “what do you do?” I always answer “basically I am a psychologist”. In fact, my academic training has revolved around the psychology of development, education and community, a field of study influenced my volunteer activities, as well as my first work experiences in personal services.