Quotes with pursuit

  • One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
  • The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
  • I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
  • In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
  • No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
  • Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
  • Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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  • Mario Andretti Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
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  • Lawana Blackwell I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • William Cowper A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bo Bennett A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sagan Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Malamud Ah, Dubin, you meet a pretty girl on the road and are braced to hop on a horse in pursuit of youth.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Denis Waitley As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bob Taft Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Folly is the direct pursuit of Happiness and Beauty.
    Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) #103
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jim Murray Golf is the pursuit of the infinite.
    Jim Murray
     
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Aldous Huxley Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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