These quotes can help. They will inspire you as we enter the new year and the next half-decade. What can you become more passionate about?

1. "One of the things that may get in the way of people...is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it." Jack Canfield

2. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot

3. "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." Les Brown

4. "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." Ferdinand Foch

5. "I think I overcame every single one of my personal shortcomings by the sheer passion I brought to my work. If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you--like a fever." Sam Walton

6. "If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it." George Lucas

7. "There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Nelson Mandela

8. "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain

9. "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurman

10. "Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours. If you're into kite-surfing and you want to become an entrepreneur, do it with kite-surfing. Look, if you can indulge in your passion, life will be far more interesting than if you're just working. You'll work harder at it, and you'll know more about it. But first you must go out and educate yourself on whatever it is that you've decided to do--know more about kitesurfing than anyone else. That's where the work comes in. But if you're doing things you're passionate about, that will come naturally." Richard Branson

11. "One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested." E. M. Forster

12. "We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

13. "The Greeks did not write obituaries. They simply asked, 'Did he have passion?'" A character in the movie Serendipity

14. "Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring." Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. "A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others." Chin-Ning Chu