Top 1200 Passion For Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.

Passion gives me emotional strength... Passion means power!

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

Its not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it's about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then u'll be a great cook.

Competing is different than violence. Sport is love. It's passion. There's no passion in hurting people.

To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Don't write something that is your passion project because all it will do is get the passion stomped out of you.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can't let it go. Whether it's a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.

I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

I'm all about passion, everything I do is with a passion that is the reason why I announce the way I do.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

Passion is a powerful force. Passion properly directed is unstoppable.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you understand what excellence is all about, whether it's in painting, or carpentry or martial arts, that you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline. I think that all the different things that I do enhance all the other things that I do.

Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

I think of the passion that the country has - not just for football but the passion everybody has to be from England. That's how I am as well.

I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Fashion is just so intense. It really has to be your passion, and it wasn't my passion.

It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

Being a manager is more than a job. It's my passion. From the moment I wake up in the morning it's my passion.