10 Quotes to Ignite Your Passion

When the going gets tough... passion will see you through.

It's important to know what you are doing, and it helps to have a plan for how to do it. However, passion for what you do is the driving force behind your work.

Here are 10 quotes on the power of passion to fuel your success:

1. Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. - Oprah Winfrey

2. Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. - Joseph Campbell

3. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. - Steve Jobs

4. Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you, and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. - T. Alan Armstrong

5. Passion is the source of our finest moments. - Joss Whedon

6. Rest in reason. Move in passion. - Kahlil Gibran

7. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. - T.D. Jakes

9. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. - Ferdinand Foch

10. A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles M. Schwab

Dr Maria Phalime is a medical doctor and the author of the award-winning memoir, Postmortem - The Doctor Who Walked Away. Watch her TEDx talk here.