Quotes About Pursuit

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or an unanswered question you spot in someone else's article.

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.

If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

As to the thirst after knowledge, it is an old law that we all get whatever we want. None of us can get anything other than what we fix our hearts upon.

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Always in pursuit of shadows! We lose to-day's substantial good for shadowy phantoms that keep our eyes ever in advance, and our feet ever hurrying forward. No pause--no ease--no full enjoyment of now. O, deluded heart!--ever bartering away substance for shadow!

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome.

God's will is that we, as His people, be separated unto Him for His purpose. As believers, we should endeavor to pursue that sanctification at any cost.

If there was one thing he knew a little about, it was pursuing a person. And though he wasn't about to give the woman beside him fair warning, Miss Ashford had better be on her guard. Because he planned on doing everything in his power to win not only her trust, but her heart as well.