What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do,… — Steve Garvey Copy Share Image
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. — Gabrielle Anwar Copy Share Image
Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
