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.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It`s really worth it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

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

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

Find something you enjoy and love and you’re passionate about. And then dedicate all you’ve got to make it a success. And if you have those two things, I think with your passion and dedication, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish.

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.