My Passion Quotes

• I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Inspirational, Passion, Ambition

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Communication, Passion, Ideas

  "Dialogue: Rupert Murdoch". Interview with Robert J. Dowling and Paula Parisi, November 17, 2005.

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• Collecting is my passion.

  Ursula Andress

  Passion, Collecting

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• I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

  Charlie Sheen

  Love, Anger, Passion

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.today.com. February 28, 2011.

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• There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Athlete

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 06, 2017

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Powerful, Spring, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Passion, Destiny, Soul

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Dance, Love Yourself

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

  Federico Fellini

  Life, Positive, Football

  "Fellini on Fellini". Book by Federico Fellini edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich and translated by Isabel Quigly, 1976.

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• Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

  Saul Bellow

  Passion, Heart, Voice

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Passion... it lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting, and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us, guides us... passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

  Joss Whedon

  Lying, Sleep, Passion

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". www.imdb.com. 1997-2003.

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• I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

  Terry Orlick

  Inspirational, Passion, Heart

  Orlick, Terry (2015). “In Pursuit of Excellence 5th Edition”, p.26, Human Kinetics

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Inspirational, Passion, Important

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• If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Photographer, Good Enough

  Robert Capa (1987). “Robert Capa: cuadernos de guerra en España (1936-1939).”

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• You don't take a photograph, you make it.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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