Pursuit Quotes
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.
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Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
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Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
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The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.
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Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
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Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person
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Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
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It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.
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The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.
