Best Pursuit Quotes

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

Success – To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

I’m not sure what theory is, unless it’s the pursuit of fundamental questions.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We’re all entitled to have the best we can

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It’s in pursuit of art.