Quotes on PASSION

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

— Winston Churchill

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

— Benjamin Franklin

"We must act out passion before we can feel it."

— Jean-Paul Sartre

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."


"Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work."

— David Sarnoff
CEO of RCA

"Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love."

— Wynton Marsalis
To a Young Jazz Musician

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."

— Ray Bradbury
On the key to success

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

— Dale Carnegie

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

— Walter Cronkite

"Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the life of our children."

— Margaret Ramsey MacDonald

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message."

— Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter

"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."

— Albert Camus

"Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing."

— Abraham Lincoln
September 30, 1859 in Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society

"Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

— Henry Chester