There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion.
(Stop Stealing Dreams)

- Seth Godin

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

- Yoko Ono

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

- Thomas Alva Edison

When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are.

- Dawna Markova

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

- Yogi Berra

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Marshall Ferdinand Foch

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Alan Watts

The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

- Michael Korda

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

- Maya Angelou

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

- Oprah Winfrey

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

- Julia Child

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

- William Ellery Channing

To change one's life:?
1. Start immediately.?
2. Do it flamboyantly.?
3. No exceptions.

- William James

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

- Madame de Stael



Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

- Madame de Stael



I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

- Susan Sontag



Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo



Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James



Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences - and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on -- whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made... But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe -- and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

- LInus Pauling



Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

- Aldous Huxley



The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

- Louis D. Brandeis



Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

- Hosea Ballou



Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill



Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill



When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

- W. Clement Stone



It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes



None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau



Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

- Arnold Toynbee



Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

- Sophia Loren



To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.

- William James