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Quotes About Pursuit

The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
~ Dorothea Lange
The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.
~ T. D. Jakes
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.
~ John Lennon
The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.
~ Elaine Chao
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
~ Judith Wright
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.
~ Tom Peters
Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.
~ Horatius Bonar
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.
~ Danielle LaPorte
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
~ David Lynch
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
~ George Wald
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
~ Isaac Asimov
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
~ Samuel Johnson
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
~ Richard Baxter
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
~ Mason Cooley
You must look to me and know who I am and if the life I offer is the life you choose. In choosing you must pledge yourself to pursue only life, never bitterness or cruelty.
~ Jewelle L. Gómez
but everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.
~ Jill Lepore
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
~ Jillian Michaels
Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.
~ Jilliane Hoffman
Jig had never worried about pursuing his destiny. Generally, destiny pursued him. Then it knocked him down and kicked him a few times for good measure.
~ Jim C. Hines
You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.
~ Jim Carrey