Quotes About Pursuit

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before:

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.

You might be a redneck if your biggest ambition in life is to git that big ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah Bubba's barn.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

Live the questions now.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.