BUILT FROM PASSION 15 Quotes on Finding Success by Following Your Passion Looking to develop your passion? Go ahead and turn it into a business at the same time. These quotes will inspire you. BY JOHN BRANDON Passion is something you can develop and nurture. It comes from within, but it is also based on your circumstances. Choose a new crowd, find a different setting, or go on a long vacation and you might develop a new passion. These quotes can help. They will inspire you as we enter the new year and the next half-decade. What can you become more passionate about? 1. One of the things that may get in the way of people...is that theyre not in touch with their passion. If youre passionate about what it is you do, then youre going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it. Jack Canfield 2. It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot 3. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown 4. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch 5. I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. If you love your work, youll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you--like a fever. Sam Walton 6. If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. Its very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because youre going to have to devote a lot of your life to it. George Lucas 7. There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela 8. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain 9. Dont ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman 10. Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours. If youre into kite-surfing and you want to become an entrepreneur, do it with kite-surfing. Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if youre just working. Youll work harder at it, and youll know more about it. But first you must go out and educate yourself on whatever it is that youve decided to do--know more about kitesurfing than anyone else. Thats where the work comes in. But if youre doing things youre passionate about, that will come naturally. Richard Branson 11. One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. E. M. Forster 12. We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 13. The Greeks did not write obituaries. They simply asked, Did he have passion? A character in the movie Serendipity 14. Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Ralph Waldo Emerson 15. A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing ones own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. Chin-Ning Chu
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