Pursuit Quotes · Page 15

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

— Albert Einstein

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

— Samuel

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

— William Carey

“pursuit of happiness becomes the source of our unhappiness.”

— Dan Harris

I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

— Alicia Keys

“When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.”

— Mary E. DeMuth

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

— Pliny the Elder

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

— Will Smith

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Rudolf Steiner

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

We all know there are vast differences between Trump and Trudeau as people, but we need to separate that from the pursuit…

— Erin O'Toole

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit…

— Maxwell Perkins

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately…

— Gary L. Thomas

In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of…

— Allen W. Wood

Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence…

— Charles Dickens

There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're…

— Brandi Carlile

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of…

— Philip Yancey

The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for…

— Patti Smith

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and…

— Edward Everett

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of…

— David Krieger

Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It…

— Pope Pius X

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there…

— Robertson Davies

You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full…

— Richard G. Scott

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

— Francois Fenelon

“Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

— P. T. Barnum

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

— Alice Hegan Rice

What was really special about 'Hanna' as a character is her pursuit of agency.

— Esme Creed-Miles

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power.

— John Ratcliffe

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

— Voltaire