“For me, every season is a challenge. Many people ask me how I’m going to motivate myself to win more things because you’ve won everything already. But football is my passion and I’m still able to make the fans happy. People love to see me, so I try to do my best, I try to score goals, to help my tea…”— Cristiano Ronaldo, worldsoccer.com
“Just create your art, tell your stories. Do your thing. The opinions of others can stop so much creativity.”— Letitia Wright, twitter.com
“Everybody here wanted something more, searching for a sound we hadn't heard before.”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“'Do you have a camera?' Thalia said. 'No.' 'Have you ever taken a picture?' 'No.' 'And you want to be a photographer?' 'You find that strange?' 'A little.' 'So if I said I wanted to be a policeman, you'd think that was strange too? Because I've never slapped handcuffs on anyone?'”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence. — Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“I lost control today. Everything I've kept buried inside came rushing to the surface. I'm simply not able to resist her.”— Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson, Stefan Salvatore, Paul Wesley, imdb.com
“My real end would be never trying anything, not taking any risks, and working a job I had zero passion for.”— Greg Sestero, amazon.com
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”— Alan Garner, amazon.com
“Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.”— Mark Cuban, books.google.com
“I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity.”— Anna Kendrick, amazon.com
“Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“Once you realize that you have identified a passion, invest in yourself. Figure out what you need to know, what kind of experience and expertise you need to develop to do the things that you feel in your heart you will enjoy and that will sustain you both mentally and economically.”— Martha Stewart, marthastewart.com
“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”— James K. Polk, en.wikiquote.org
“Getting motivated doesn't mean that you should stick to it. Just let it go if you find something better. Life is too short to limit yourself to what you were motivated to do for a moment.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.”— Simon Sinek, amazon.com
“Don’t pressure yourself. Don’t worry about what others think you should do or what the social norm is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the good will follow.”— Misha Collins, celebmix.com