passionate belief Quotes

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.

Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults us over hurdles, and our lives unfold.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.