Pursuing Quotes

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin)
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. View quote
John Stuart Mill
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. View quote
Chin-Ning Chu
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means. View quote
Francis Hutcheson
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting. View quote
Charlie Trotter
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. View quote
Eisaku Sato
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. (Richard Thompson)
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ. View quote
David Wilkerson
Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. View quote
Paulo Coelho
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. View quote
George Soros
The fact is that Democrats have already been pursuing policies that are much better for the white working class than anything the other party has to offer. Yet this has brought no political reward. View quote
Paul Krugman
Man's rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment. View quote
Ayn Rand
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path. View quote
Theodore von Kármán
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about. View quote
Françoise Sagan
I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. "It is futile," I said, "You can never-""You lie," he cried, And ran on. View quote
Stephen Crane
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A. D., and besides telescopes are unnatural. (Timothy Leary)
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance. View quote
Émile Chartier
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. View quote
Richard Whately
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching. View quote
Nhat Hanh