Pursuit Quotes - page 5

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself. View quote
Allan Bloom
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit? View quote
Aldo Leopold
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. View quote
Errol Morris
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis. View quote
Rana Dasgupta
The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time. View quote
Philip Carr-Gomm
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. (Hugh Jackman)
I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. View quote
Sean Covey
It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to it's fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. View quote
Dan Buettner
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. View quote
Dan Buettner
It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true. View quote
Daniel Wallace
That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don't want you to think I forgot. View quote
David Levithan
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here. View quote
James Hillman
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life. (Jerry Bridges)
The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey. View quote
Joan Wallach Scott
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. View quote
John Piper
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. View quote
Douglas Kennedy
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line? View quote
Amy Chua