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Quotes About Pursuit

No matter what it is, I wanna be great. I wanna be be the best at it.
~ Tessa Blanchard
Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
~ Garbine Muguruza
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
~ Maya Lin
I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.
~ Bonnie Hammer
I've always known I wanted to be an actress. I didn't know quite how I was going to get there because I come from a small town called Simpsonville, South Carolina.
~ Danielle Brooks
I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
~ Mahershala Ali
I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.
~ Cody Simpson
I wanted to be an actor, but only because I wanted to be everything, and that was the only way I could be a marine biologist as well.
~ Essie Davis
I started out wanting to coach football.
~ Lee Majors
I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.
~ Michael Steger
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
~ Jules Renard
Reagan's enduring value as a conservative icon stems from his resolute preaching of the conservative gospel, in words that still warm the hearts of the most zealous conservatives. Yet Reagan's value as a conservative model must begin with recognition of his flexibility in the pursuit of his conservative goals.
~ H. W. Brands
Whoever wanted this trunk
~ Rachel Hauck
Bird, however, insists that my desire for a career in sports reporting has nothing to do with my love of sports. "It's your other love: guys. You want to know what really goes on in the locker room, and you want to get up close and personal with those towel-wrapped hotties." Her theory is a lot closer to the truth than I like to admit, because it makes me seem less than noble in my pursuit of a higher education.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Jenny turned and Jenny ran to where she thought the woods began, she turned and ran from you. But deeper into woods she flew with every step, until the dew and darkness led her back to you.
~ Rachel Plummer
Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit
~ Racine
La imperfección busca la perfección. En cambio, la perfección en si misma es estéril.
~ Rafael Argullol
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.
~ Rafe Esquith
Live the questions.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Humans are the only race who are continuously either possessed by or obsessed for various energies!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Most behavior is in pursuit of a goal. Some efforts are attempts to get something, others to escape or prevent something. Either way, an individual is usually trying to make progress toward some goal. High and low moods are aroused by situations that arise during goal pursuit. What situations? A generic but useful answer is: high and low moods were shaped to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations .
~ Randolph M. Nesse
you have to do something for yourself. The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness. You got to work for it.
~ Ray E. Boomhower
It is impossible to grant someone happiness. The best you can do, as the Declaration of Independence put it, is to give him the freedom to pursue happiness. Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's byproduct of achievement.
~ Ray Kroc
Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.
~ Raymond Sokolov