There’s nothing wrong with being passionate about what you do.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

Find your passion and pursue it relentlessly.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

I’m a Cancer; I’m music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

You have never loved me as I love you – never – never! Yours is not a passionate heart – your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite – not a woman!

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness
they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight, flight from the spot which was the daily theatre of a rigid, cold, and passionate service

Passionate – that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment

I believe in working hard and dreaming big.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified friendship. But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse.

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

As long as you are happy and passionate about what you are doing, you will always develop your skills to be the best you can be.

Kanye West is so passionate that he will make a sucker feel uncomfortable because they aren’t passionate like that about anything in their life.

I don’t know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that’s what I wanted to do.

Baseball is a game that demands both precision and passion.

Recording a song for a film doesn’t take much time; it’s hardly an hour’s job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I’ve to take time out to work on my albums because I’m passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

I’m passionate about life. I’m passionate about food.

I’ve never made a plan for my life. I’ve just been doing what I’m passionate about and what I’m interested in.

I’m passionate about learning. I’m passionate about life.

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

I’m an emotional singer, and I put all of myself into my songs.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you’re talking about.

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

I’m just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I’m having fun, I’ll do it. When it stops being fun, I’ll try something else.

I want to play until the end.

I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve been doing.

I believe that if you do what you really care about, you basically feel free.

I play to win.

I can’t put my mind to anything else. I’m not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it’s all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it’s football the whole time. I think I’m obsessed!

The dream is not what you see in sleep, it is the thing which doesn’t let you sleep.

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun’s rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life–and over all is God’s truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…

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.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

I’m just happy to do projects I’m passionate about.

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.

Coaching is something I’ve been a part of my entire life. One of the things I’ve always been very passionate.

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.

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’m a passionate, hardcore fisherman. The biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

If you get married they think you’re finished and if you are without a woman they think you’re incomplete.

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.

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

If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don’t agree with your views, but in reality we’re all different and we’re all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts.

I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I’m fighting with someone I’ll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.

If acting was hard for me, I wouldn’t do it; it is something that I like to do.

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That’s why I think it is important to stay passionate.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk

I’m big on the studio. I like to stay in it 24/7.

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

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don’t chase the wave.

I speak my soul through my music; I’m so passionate.

You gotta be hungry.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Tell yourself that if it’s hard, I’ll do it hard. I’m unstoppable!

If passion drives, let reason hold the reins.

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.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I’ll be the richest man in the world. That’s one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don’t have to worry about nothing. I don’t want family members from my kids to my son’s kids to never have to worry. And I can’t do that now just playing basketball.

I’m laughing all the way to the bank because I’m making music that I love and I’m proud of.

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.”

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Then shall man’s pride and dullness comprehend his actions’, passions’, being’s, use and end

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail, reason the card, but passion is the gale.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters

I’ve been planted here to be a vessel for acting… That’s why I’m really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it’s going to be.

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel mother

Success is when your signature becomes an autograph

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I come from nothing, so when I make something out of myself, it’s like I’m making history.

Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

Every time I start a year, I start with the objective of trying to achieve everything, without comparing it to how I’ve done in other seasons.

Football has been my life since I was a kid. My style remains the same, I love every single minute I get on the pitch. I know I have a great responsibility, and that there are objectives to accomplish, but I try to have fun too, because that’s what i love to do.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

All my future plans are related to Real Madrid, and there are no other clubs on my mind. I’m so happy here along with my family. Few players have ended their career here, Zidane being one of the exceptions. I’d like to be one of those players, too, but time will tell what the future holds.

I have never doubted myself even if others did, I always believed I could get to where I am today and thank God this came true.

Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn’t have a fear that I wouldn’t be good enough in England.

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

I hustle hard, that’s how I survive.

I’m a rapper, but I’m more of a hustler.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.