Quotes About Pursuit

It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.

I could have pursued her. A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery. There's something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy ... bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That's why they're so hard to get over.

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

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.

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can't put to words, it's the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it's a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.

When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.