Pursuit Quotes
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I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
William Carey -
For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
Marianne Williamson
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
Plato -
Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.
Joseph Heller -
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
E. M. Forster -
An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.
Apolo Ohno -
I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
Alicia Keys -
Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.
Cenk Uygur
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As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.
Keith B. McMullin -
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Plato -
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
Antoine Rivarol -
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
Sean Covey -
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.
Wendy McElroy -
You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.
Will Ferguson
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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 all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
Plato -
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw -
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
Noah Levine -
The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.
Charles Dickens -
Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.
David Maister -
For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
Alexander Nehamas
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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
Plato -
Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.
Walter J Chantry -
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
Francis Chan -
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
Miroslav Volf