Quotes About Pursuit

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.

A testimony is a precious gift of the Spirit, a sign that we have in fact been born again (1 John 5:1). It is a transition from darkness to light, from an aimless and wandering maneuver to a determined, Spirit-guided pursuit. We have put off skepticism and put on a believing heart. We have died as pertaining to cynicism and come alive as pertaining to gospel gladness and optimism. We have put to death the old man of doubt and quickened the new man of assurance and certitude.

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

The Führermuseum, the most spectacular art museum in history, culled from the riches of the entire world, gave that pursuit a defining rationale.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Life teaches that the measure of the value of any human desire is in direct proportion to the risk involved in its pursuit. The higher the value, the higher the risk. We give the ultimate values to those things that demand the ultimate risks—our freedom, our lives, our souls.

in truth there's only one story. In essence we have told one another the same tale, one way or another, since the dawn of humanity, and that story could be usefully called the Quest. All stories take the form of a Quest.

At last I have drawn a firm line under the truly astounding great column of figures and am done with pursuing that for which I am not sufficiently intelligent.

The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.

Find your calling. I believe we all have special talents that are just waiting to be engaged in a worthy pursuit. We are all here for some unique purpose, some noble objective that will allow us to manifest our highest human potential while we, at the same time, add value to the lives around us.

you cannot pursue success; success ensues.

El éxito, como la felicidad, no debe perseguirse, sino seguirse

Only those who seek shall find." I

Only those who seek shall find.

Being engaged in a pursuit that truly challenges you is the surest route to personal satisfaction.

find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. If you study the happiest, healthiest, most satisfied people of our world, you will see that each and every one of them has found their passion in life, and then spent their days pursuing it.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the product of human freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which is precisely why it happened where and when it did.

2001: A Space Odyssey is not about a goal, but about a quest, a need.

People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home and come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.