Quotes About Pursuit

Dare to seize every opportunity on your life's journey.

I am giving my best in the pursuit of my most cherished dreams.

There is nothing wrong withdeciding that you don't wantsomething, but if you do want it, go out and get it!

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.

If we spend our lives in the pursuit of a temporal happiness; as riches or sensual pleasures; credit and esteem from men; delight in our children, and the prospect of seeing them well brought up, and well settled, &c.--All these things will be of little significancy to us. Death will blow up all our hopes, and will put an end to these enjoyments.

Wishing for a fantasy life is easier than the pursuit of real goals.

W]hen it comes to goal pursuit, it really is the journey that counts, not the destination. Set for yourself any goal you want. Most of the pleasure will be had along the way, with every step that takes you closer. The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than the relief of taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."4

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936

Religion was the robe of sanctity worn to mask the naked pursuit of power.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.