Quotes About Pursuit

America's Declaration of Independence speaks of "the pursuit of happiness," but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don't find it by seeking it.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back!

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Growth was a natural by-product of the company's success in pursuing its central purpose and reason for being, whatever that may have been.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf...

The French Connection?

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Ah, my friends, Love, like a froward boy, with his hands full of sugar-plums, still cries for more.

It could be that the hope was in the adventure, the honor in the pursuit, the pride in the doing.

Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.

Und er ging auf die Suche nach dem Wahnsinnigen, der seinen Namen in Großbuchstaben schrieb.

I thought we were just people. I have no idea." Her uncle smiled, and an unholy light appeared in his eyes. He's gonna skate off now, she thought. I can never catch him and bring him back.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Find me now. Before someone else does.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth.

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: I spent my days pursuing the nothingness - le rien - it creates. My job is to create that void, that rien . Hunting knife