Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

Her passion was never spent in public display.

Rick Clausen

I think it's the ultimate rivalry in the SEC. There's always a little more passion when it comes to this game.

Richard Whately

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Rhonda Britten

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

Virginia Woolf

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Virat Kohli

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Woodrow Wilson

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Woody Allen

Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

William Wordsworth

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

Richard Paul Evans

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Reinhold Messner

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

Reinhold Messner

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Warren G. Harding

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

Warren G. Harding

As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

Warren G. Harding

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Sheryl WuDunn

Women are not the problem they're the solution

Kate Voegele

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

Eckhart Tolle

Facing facts is always empowering.

Glenn Schifano

To put the shaker in his hand and then to get him to shake on his own, I think it was empowering for him and also empowering for parent.

Daniel Craig

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Alexander McQueen

I want to empower women.

Drew Barrymore

I like women who like each other and empower each other.

Amber Heard

There is a common, puritanical way that we look at things where, if it involves sexuality, somehow the women must be compromised. It's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality. It's about empowering. It comes down to choices. If the choices are available and they're making that choice, they're not being exploited.

Annie Lennox

Women empowering other women.They get the psycho-social support. They become part of a community.