Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Quote by Virgil

Topics: Passion Quotes

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

None but himself can be his parallel.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Mind moves matter.

Mind moves matter.

Time is flying, never to return

Time is flying, never to return

Here's Death! twitching my ear: Live, says he, for I'm coming.

Here's Death! twitching my ear: Live, says he, for I'm coming.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

Every sound alarms.

Every sound alarms.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what...

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what...

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw...

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw...

We can't all do everything.

We can't all do everything.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

I shudder when relating it.

I shudder when relating it.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.