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Quotes About Pursuit

Only in our failures are we absolutely alone. Only in the pursuit of failure can a person really be free. Losers may be the avant garde of the modern age.
~ Sheila Heti
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.
~ Francis Chan
Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
~ Hu Jintao
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.
~ J. Irwin Miller
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
~ Derek Jarman
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
~ Joshua Wong
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
~ Russell M. Nelson
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
~ Tyson Fury
I won't have the sacks of a Mark Gastineau and I won't get all those pursuit tackles. Our responsibilities are different. He's allowed to freelance all over the field. I have back-side responsibility. I have to play the reverses and cutbacks. Let me know when Gastineau decides to play the run.
~ Howie Long
I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.
~ Nipsey Russell
My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
~ Darlene Love
My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.
~ Melvin Van Peebles
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
~ William Vickrey
Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.
~ Cenk Uygur
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
~ George Oppen
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
~ Bob Brown
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
~ James Nasmyth
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
~ Frederick Sanger
I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.
~ Charles Schwab
Well, I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be lost in religion. Because religion, all that it is, is man's attempt to try to put a definition on something that is very hard to define.
~ Kirk Franklin
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.
~ W. G. Sebald
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
~ Evgeny Morozov
Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
~ Ryan Reynolds