“Be in a position to walk away once the pursuit of anything seems in vain.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy. — Alice Kuipers Copy Share Image
“for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning” — John Green Copy Share Image
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves. — Charles Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God &… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.),… — African Spir Copy Share Image
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit. — Elaine Chao Copy Share Image
The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
