Quotes about pursuit
Laurence Sterne -
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Giacomo Casanova - Vols. I & II
It is shallow desires which make a young man bold strong desires confound him.
Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?
Ellen J. Barrier - How to Trust God When All Other Resources Have Failed
Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.
Lailah Gifty Akita - The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life
You must passionately pursue your dreams for life.
Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar - Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the vall
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is free from fears, choice of faith.
Tupac Shakur -
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
Unarine Ramaru -
With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?
Unarine Ramaru -
The only relevance worth to pursue, is living your passion through your interests.
Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking
How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of it.
Sunday Adelaja -
Serving humanity is not beneath spiritual pursuit
Anne Giardini - The Sad Truth About Happiness
I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Viet Thanh Nguyen -
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires.
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.
Legh Richmond -
Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!
Amy Leigh Mercree -
Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.
Shannon L. Alder -
To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
You must have courage and confidence to pursue the visions.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
May you find the strength to pursue your dreams.
Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn
What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Begin to pursue your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We are writing the history of our time.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We can do great things only by the divine grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Begin to pursue your dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Your calling connects with your passion.
Debasish Mridha -
Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
We find happiness doing what we love.
Nicole Bonomi -
A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him to pursue and obtain his heart's true yearning. He will appear incorrect in his upright form, but such perception only through the eyes of those travelling under the hypnotic notion of social paradigms. Do not judge he who is breaking the rules, rather try to understand his motivations. If his intent is pure the
Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career
There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials we all must bear. I think that even the most common-minded person in the land has inner thoughts and feelings which no one can share with him, and the higher one's organization the more one must suffer in that respect.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
My pursuit of science turns into a passion for spirituality.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.
Grace Willows - Not On My Watch
I do not fear the darkness. It fears me.
VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis -
Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
Lao Tzu -
In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.
Sunday Adelaja -
Pursuit Of Knowledge Is An Attempt To Discover Established Principles Of The Kingdom Of God
Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever
Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective.
Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims
Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
Vineet Raj Kapoor -
There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!
Terry Brooks - Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.
Steven Redhead - Life Is Simply A Game
The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.
Irfa Rahat -
You have to look inside, to pursuit spirituality.
P. T. Barnum -
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
Frederick Sanger -
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Harriet Martineau -
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
Fang Chen -
Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.
Cinda Williams Chima - The Gray Wolf Throne
She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.
Sunday Adelaja -
For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger
Nathanael West - Miss Lonelyhearts
You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.
Robert W. Chambers - The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets, and white Roman hyacinths in a golden cloud of mimosa. The street was full of Sunday pleasure-seekers. I swung my cane and laughed with the rest. Someone overtook and passed me. He never turned, but there was the same deadly malignity in his white profile that there had been in his eyes. I watched him as long as
John Kramer - Blythe
The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
You ought to pursue love and spiritual sacred-gifts.
Antoine Rivarol -
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Debasish Mridha -
Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.
Tim Hiller - Pursue What Matters
We all are striving for something every minute of the day, whether we realize it or not.
Donna Lynn Hope -
She was asked, “What do you see in him?”Taken aback, she replied, “What does he see in me?”Others too wondered why she chose him – not as handsome as the others, not one with a lot of possessions or even status, but little did they know, as little minds go, that she chose the one who wanted her most.
Mary E. DeMuth - Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Our wishes are endless.
Paulo Coelho -
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
Jim George - A Man After God's Own Heart
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.
Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.
Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
All of my works are steps on my journey, a struggle for truth that I have waged with pen, canvas, and materials. Overhead is a distant, radiant star, and the more I stretch to reach it, the further it recedes. But by the power of my spirit and my single-hearted pursuit of the path, I have clawed my way through the labyrinthine confusion of the world of people in an unstinting effort to approach even one step closer to the realm of the soul.
Kamil Ali - Profound Vers-A-Tales
UNDAUNTED PURSUITSuccess, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience
Erin Bow - Plain Kate
They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.
Waheed Ibne Musa - Johnny Fracture
It takes a lot of hard work, devotion, good food, balanced diet, enough money, etcetera. Do you have any of them?
John-Talmage Mathis - I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town
And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.
Sunday Adelaja -
To be successful is to be a carrier of kingdom in every life pursuit
Giacomo Casanova - Volumes III & IV
Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.
Sunday Adelaja -
True satisfaction comes when the pursuit of purpose in the kingdom of God comes first
Sunday Adelaja -
Discipline is needed in our pursuit.
Thomas Jefferson - Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.
Richie Norton - and Live without Regret
The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness.
Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away.
Israelmore Ayivor -
When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.
Irene Hunt - Up a Road Slowly
One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.
Shannon L. Alder -
The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
Geoffrey Wood -
Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.
Sunday Adelaja -
The pursuit of your vision determines your focus
Tim Hiller - Pursue What Matters
...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.
Christy Hall - The Little Silkworm
Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...
Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Call Me Irresistible
Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.
Geoffrey Wood -
They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word “pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they prog
Geoffrey Wood -
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, distant state of bliss which if they were given would bore them in minutes.
Sunday Adelaja -
For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored
Katherine McIntyre - Hunting for Spring
She was the type who chased, who danced into your life like a spring storm, and left you battered and quaking in the wake.
Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
True determination is betting on your solemn decision regardless of the gloomy realities surrounding the thing you resolved to pursue.
Rose Wynters - The Vampire's House of Pleasure: Part Two
After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.