Quotes About Pursuit

Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.

Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.

I have projects in life that I'm engaged in, I have things that stimulate me in my life, that make me happy. But more interesting for me is: I'm still trying to figure it out.

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.'

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way.

If a young girl feels comfortable to pursue her passion, we as a collective will be stronger and more equipped to face the challenges life presents.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.

If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God

The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living.

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

God never intends for our lives to be shaped by conformity to a list of abstract rules. Rather, he intends for them to be shaped by a joyous pursuit of greater and greater likeness to the character of our covenant Lord, our Father.

Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.

praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.

But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.