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.
- Topic: Passion, Perseverance
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.
To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.
Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
