Quotes About Pursuit

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.

When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it, going back to pursue your true passion can be kind of nerve wracking.

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.

Pursuing money is tantamount to pursuing personal convenience. Pursuing personal convenience is an inconvenience to God's greater purpose for mankind.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

What money is worth is never taught in formative stages, thereby everyone defines it his own way, but the fact remains that no one is able to define it ever, but still runs after it blindly.