Pursuit Quotes

• 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
  • Remember
  • Aim
  • Pursuit

• Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Life
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Direct

• The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Justice
  • Reconciliation
  • Theologian

• 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
  • Attention
  • Denied
  • Expenditures

• 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
  • Wind
  • Clouds
  • Pursuit

• The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Philosophy
  • Pursuit

• 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
  • Freedom
  • Fulfillment
  • Irritating

• Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Moving
  • Ideas
  • Forward

• The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.

  

  Ben Aldridge
  • Outcome
  • Pursuit
  • Expressing

• We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Wish
  • Becoming
  • Idiot

• For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Pursuit

• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  

  Murray Kempton
  • Particular
  • Heroin
  • Paranoid

• It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Remember
  • Matter
  • Liberty

• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Firsts
  • Individual
  • Social

• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Running
  • Forget
  • Organization

• If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

  

  George W. Melville
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas
  • Pursuit

• I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Periods

• Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Love Is
  • Pursuit

• Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Pursuit

• The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

  

  George Will
  • Achievement
  • Perfection
  • Pursuit

• It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Art
  • Successful
  • Bored

• Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Best
  • Patience
  • Ourselves

• Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Achievement
  • Clear
  • Pursue

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