David Brooks Quotes

If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion.

I have to have a passion in my life.

I no longer think you can live without passion.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

You have to be passionate about things in your life.

What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word.

I never struggle for motivation, that's for sure. Motivation is something that burns within.

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

I feel fiery in my life. I feel fiery in my art.

I like looking at the negative stuff. Because it fuels me. It lights a fire that's going to be burning for a long time.

There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'

I'm a person that takes on situations from passion. I get passionate about things, and I try to help.

Throughout my career I have always done everything with passion.