Pursuits Quotes

194 quotes by 166 authors

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some… — Anthony Storr
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in… — Justus von Liebig
Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,… — Thomas Jefferson
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am… — Wright Morris
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more… — Paul Morphy
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which… — Aristotle
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August von Hayek
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Unknown Author
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely… — J.P. Moreland
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give… — Holly Robinson Peete
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt… — Michelangelo
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
It is important to value the individual, to have good health, a loving family and good relationships, to have community ties, leisure pursuits. These are… — Helen Lynch
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in… — Plato
Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this… — Plato

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