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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Follow your passion and don’t let anyone discourage you.

Cricket is not just a game for me; it’s a passion, a way of life.

Football is about passion, emotion, and love.

Passion is what drives you to greatness.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion, and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else.

You have seen cricketers who are not god-gifted, but even then, they have gone far. That’s because of the passion.

This is my life, this is my passion, this is all I got.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Football is a game of passion, and you have to play with heart and soul.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him

Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself

Failure is the mother of success mother. I learned from that passion and sincerity.

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.

I still read the books to-day, but never again shall I read them with that old glory of youthful passion when I harked to the call from over and beyond that whispered me on to win to the mystery at the back of life and behind the stars.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Why should he not hate them? He never asked himself the question. He knew only hate and lost himself in the passion of it. Life had become a hell to him. He had not been made for the close confinement wild beasts endure at the hands of men. And yet it was in precisely this way that he was treated. Men stared at him, poked sticks between the bars to make him snarl, and then laughed at him.

I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.

Bitter rage was his, but never blind rage. In passion to rend and destroy, he never forgot that his enemy was in like passion to rend and destroy.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

And the three ladies, as is often the case when women of sense serve tea to men of passion, prevailed.

Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.

Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I’m doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It’s the drive. It’s the passion.

I remember I’d be playing in the streets with friends, sometimes barefooted. I’d come home with sore feet, but wanting to do the same the day after. That passion made us keep playing. Playing in the dirt was our daily joy.

I like to do comedy. It’s my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

Munich is a spectacular city with fantastic flair and a tremendous passion for football.

You’re never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn’t matter at all. If it’s something you want to do, it depends on your will

There’s no point playing up front just because you want to be the one who scores the goals. Make sure you have a knack for it.

I always feel like I can do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself… If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

I breath wrestling. It’s in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

I work in 144 countries. I work in Africa with equal passion, in Latin America with equal passion. I’ve worked in Pakistan with equal passion. So it is a global fight. But I’m proud that India is where this fight began and it began through me. Then, it spread to other countries. We are born in the land of the Mahatma where solutions are made with peace and non-violence. I’ve been working 100% through non-violent means. I strongly believe in the principles of peace in all my fight.

If I was not fighting against child labor, I don’t know what else I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that.

It was a passion from my childhood to work for children, I carried it forward. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Baseball is a game that demands both precision and passion.

Every player should play the game as if it’s their last, with passion and dedication

Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

I really don’t know what to say, i waited a long time for this.

He is aware that he feels a vague respect for the woman. Mendoza, at least, had never done the reasonable thing, never settled for less, but held to her one insane passion even as it had dragged her into the flames. Such a valuable quality in a pawn.

I didn’t give up at any point even when my classification was changed. When people told me I couldn’t do it I never gave up at any point and I’m here proving if you work hard and you have a passion for something you can get there.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I don’t know whether I am mentally tough or not, but one thing I know is that I like the game and spend as much time as possible on it.

I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.

As a team, you try to win – you try to push in as many overs you can – but that’s how it’s played.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Success is not just about talent, it’s also about hard work, dedication and focus.

I have a strong passion for the game and always look forward to playing.

The best way to find yourself is through your art. Let your passion guide you.

I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world.

All passion is madness.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is.

That isn’t to say that Hawaii’s better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you’re stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you’re going to follow your passion from there.

Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun

My mother gave me a ball, and from then on, there was only football in my life.

Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it’s for a check. It’s not what I want to do. Comedy’s my thing. Stand up’s my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

Comedy is my passion. I’m going to do this until I drop.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.

Passion fuels purpose, and purpose fuels success.

In a world that tries to reduce you to just one thing, remember you are a multifaceted individual capable of so much.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My passion wakes me up.

Never allow fear to overpower your passion.

To win Olympic gold, it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of passion, and a lot of sacrifices.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

I admire women. I admire their passion, their dedication and their appetite for life.

Formula 1 is passion, technology, danger, emotion.

We wanted to keep racing, while others wanted to start wars. Racing was our passion, and we went right on racing.

I admire women. I admire their passion, their dedication and their appetite for life.

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

It’s all about passion, and hard work, dedication, we might not have had the biggest budget, but we definitely had the biggest heart.

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It’s not a chance, it’s a choice.

If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.

I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

So it’s a lot of hard work and it’s a lot of worrying constantly and if you don’t love it, you’re going to fail. So you’ve got to love it and you’ve got to have passion and I think that’s the high-order bit.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming

Fashion is one thing, but style is another

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Nothing tops making a living off your passion.

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.

For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains

I don’t have a temper, I have passion.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it’s a passion. Poor old Antony Worrall Thompson, poor old Delia Smith, I don’t think the penny’s dropped yet!

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

I have a passion for music, I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man’s desire… The world’s frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That’s the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion.

In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I’ve always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.

The beauty in a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart; the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring and that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real

Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don’t believe it, but it’s true.

Let passion drive your profession.

You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I always had a passion for rap music and I was always trying to create a situation where I could do this full-time

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire

The Law is Reason free from Passion

I wanna do everything under the sun. I wanna do everything just one on one.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.