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44 Best Inspirational Passion Quotes

List Of 44 Best Inspirational Passion Quotes:

#1 Émile Zola

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

#2 Czeslaw Milosz

”The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.”

#3 Giacomo Casanova

”Be the flame, not the moth.”

#4 Ziad K. Abdelnour

”Happiness is the key to success. If you are truly passionate with what you are doing and are relentless in overcoming any obstacle that will come your way, you will be wildly successful.”

#5 Robert Ballard

”Follow your own passion – not your parents’, not your teachers’– yours.”

#6 Martin Dasko

”I believe that it’s crazy to not even try to follow some sort of passion, even if it’s on the side, in your spare time, or only for a set period of time.”

#7 Amanda Ring

”An athlete is a normal person with the gift of an undying passion to be the best and achieve greatness.” 

#8 Marcus Buckingham

”Passion isn’t something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you’re actually doing every day.”

#9 Sandra Leon

”Not every day will be perfect but the majority of your days should be filled with so much passion for your work you forget it is actually work.”

#10 Nelson Mandela

”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.”

#11 Grommet Howard

”Life starts when you find a passion and begin writing down a plan to obtain your dreams.” 

#12 Zach Toelke

“A true passion that burns within your soul is one that can never be put out.” 

#13 Derek C. Doepker

”Passion serves its purpose to help give a person motivation to learn the necessary skills and overcome the hardships they’re going to face.” 

#14 Isabelle Lafleche

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” 

#15 Yanni

”All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.” 

#16 David Cuschieri

“Love what you do and do what you love. Passion is the key that opens the door to joy and abundance.” 

#17 Gail Lynne Goodwin

“Dreams and passion are more powerful than facts and reality.” 

#18 Robert T. Kiyosaki

“True passion attracts. If you have passion in your business, the right people will be attracted to your team.” 

#19 Wanda Sykes

“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” 

#20 Deepak Chopra

“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” 

#21 Martha Graham

“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”

#22 T.D. Jakes

“If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

#23 Anita Roddick

“To succeed you have to believe in something with such passion that it becomes a reality.” 

#24 Dave Ramsey

“Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time.” 

#25 John Maxwell

”A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” 

#26 Mark Z. Danielewski

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

#27 Roy T. Bennett

“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”

#28 Anonymous

“Finding your passion isn’t just about careers and money. it’s about finding your authentic self. The one you’ve buried beneath other people’s needs.” 

#29 Debasish Mridha

”Let your love be your guide. Let your courage be your driver, and let your passion be your road to enjoy this magnificent life to the fullest.” 

#30 Albert Einstein

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” 

#31 Shonda Rhimes

”Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer, whether or not you know what your ‘passion’ might be. The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new.”

#32 Folorunsho Mejabi

”Enthusiasm or passion means throwing ourselves into a relationship, goal, dream, or activity. It means casting aside worries or distractions and embracing instead the delights of the moment or the hope of success.”

#33 Aldous Huxley

“I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”

#34 Joseph Campbell

“Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.” 

#35 Donald Trump

“Without passion, you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.” 

#36 C. JoyBell C.

“You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.”

#37 Denis Waitley

”By chasing our passion, not our pension, we all can receive the gift that comes from knowing that all life – present and future – has been nurtured by our individual contributions.”

#38 Nicholas Sparks

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

#39 George Eliot

”Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary.”

#40 George Hegel

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” 

#41 Oprah Winfrey

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

#42 Candide

“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”

#43 William Samuel Johnson

”Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

#44 Sheryl Sandberg

”It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.”

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References

https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1993/mandela/biographical/