Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.

Alexandra Robbins

There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless you are doing something unhealthy or destructive, take pride in your beliefs, passions, and values. Know that you will eventually meet people who will appreciate you for being you.

Alexandre Dumas

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Jason Alexander

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

Poetry has passion, ... And passion has power to reach a person's soul in a way that words cannot.

I don't share your optimism. We can talk about this for 19 hours, because I get pretty passionate about it.

Gary Bettman

He was a splendid athlete, a passionate player and someone who never hesitated to speak his mind.

He was a proud guy, and he worked really hard. He had a passion for this business.

Bob Wright

He was all heart. He had the passion and it takes that passion to make something of yourself in the restaurant business.

Kris Benson

He was very passionate about anything that he did.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

She has a passion for telling the story.

I have a passion for the transit industry.

Jean Paul

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Jerry Saltz

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Jerry Seinfeld

You can be passionate about anything.

Jerome K. Jerome

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

Jeffrey Gitomer

If you find common subjects or interests with a prospect, you can establish a business friendship. Ask about a diploma or picture. Your prospect will be glad to talk about what he/she just did or likes to do. Try to captivate him or her in intelligent conversation with engaging questions about their interests. It's obviously better if you're versed in the subject, because that's where rapport is established. Get the prospect to talk about their passions and what makes them happy.

Jim Gaffigan

I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.

Jennifer Lawrence

Better passion and death than any more of these'isms'. No more of the old purpose done up in aspic. Better passion and death.

Jennifer Lopez

I love what I do. I have an insatiable appetite for creating things and wanting to get better at what I do and always growing and never stopping. I don't know. It's something I was born with. It's definitely a drive. It's a passion, and it's driven for a love for what I do.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Live with passion. Live with purpose.

James Buchan

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James C. Collins

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

James A. Garfield

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

James A. Baldwin

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

James A. Baldwin

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

James A. Baldwin

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

James A. Baldwin

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

Christopher Lambert

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.