Passion: The Key Ingredient to Success

Get inspired with these passionate quotes.

If you really had true passion for your idea, nothing would stop you. You wouldn’t wait for someone else to champion your idea. You would do it. You would climb the highest mountain if need be, so people would know about your idea. Or you would parachute into Windsor Palace. Or you would stand in front of a line of Chinese tanks. You would die for your idea. — John Kremer

Passion is the key to success. Nothing works quite as well as a passionate do, do, doing. — John Kremer

You can never underestimate passion in life. Passion is what carries you through good and bad times. — Antonio Banderas, actor

There’s something in people’s eyes. I can teach a chimp to make spaghetti with clams, but I can’t teach a chimp to love it, and that’s the difference. You need to love it with a passion like I have. — Mario Batali, TV chef and cookbook author

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it’s passion that persuades. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., author, Life’s Little Instruction Book, Volume II

Find something you’re passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. — Julia Child, cookbook author

Pursue whatever it is that you are so passionate about that you don’t want to stop doing it. — Elizabeth Holmes, billionaire founder of Theranos

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. — Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos

If you don’t enjoy marketing your books, do something else. Why waste time doing something you don’t like? Create a passion and live that. — John Kremer

People who are successful are passionate about what they do. — Shelly Lazarus, advertising executive

If I need to do something, it never comes out right. If I want to do something, it’s from a creative, organic, passionate place, and it’s amazing. — Jennifer Lopez, singer and actress

Luck usually plays a role in most breaks. If you’re in the right place at the right time with enough talent, you’ve got a shot. So follow your passion. — Garry Marshall, director and author, Wake Me When It’s Funny

Business isn’t some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine—a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But enterprise (a lovely word) is about heart. About beauty. It’s about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It’s about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal. — Thomas Peters, business author

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners and losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. — Sylvester Stallone, actor

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete. — Sam Walton, billionaire founder, WalMart

You can’t implant a CEO into an idea. Creating an idea, funding a company, and keeping it going takes incredible passion and belief. — Jake Weinbaum, CEO, Business.com

Claim time for the passions that make you love your life. — Oprah Winfrey, TV host, entrepreneur, publisher, author, actress

Have the courage to follow your passion—and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it. — Oprah Winfrey, TV host, entrepreneur, publisher, author, actress

Don’t do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might. — Hugh Young