Pursuit Quotes

“Praying is a divine pursuit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

— George W. Romney

“Pursuit of a dream is a daring adventure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

— Mark Sheppard

“the pursuit of love is like falconry”

— Gil Vicente

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

— George Oppen

“Success is the relentless pursuit of joy.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Persist in the pursuit of your passion.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Then what do you want with me?'... 'The pursuit of happiness.”

— Edwidge Danticat

[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

— Barack Obama

“Is it possible to pursue happiness if the pursuit itself does not make you happy?”

— Deepak Malhotra

I don't want to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

— Nick Viall

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

— Rosanne Cash

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

— George Will

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

— Matt Haig

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us…

— C. J. Mahaney

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

— John Ruskin

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes,…

— Michael B. Jordan

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own…

— Rudolf Steiner

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

— Anonymous

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people…

— Mary Baker Eddy

“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of…

— Miles Franklin

It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve…

— Dalai Lama

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but…

— William Osler

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements.…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a…

— Archibald Hill

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle…

— Scott Adams

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole… The characteristics and pursuits of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to…

— Os Guinness

Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though…

— David Foster Wallace

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,…

— Samuel

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring…

— Joseph Addison

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of…

— James Henley Thornwell

The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the…

— William Wickenden

Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can…

— Joel Garreau