Browsing Topic Best Pursuit Quotes

Please find below a curated list of 934 of The Best Pursuit Quotes by notable women and men. Please consider sharing with others any of the Pursuit Quotes that resonate.

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Inspirational , I Can

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Heart , Grows

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Ifs , Want

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Inspirational , Funny

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Thinking , Power

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Memories , Happiness

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Individual , Justice

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Thinking , Men

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , People , Ifs

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Christian , Grows

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Men , Needs

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one’s life to a larger goal.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Goal , Lust

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , People , Knows

Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Found , Struggle

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Illusion , Possession

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.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Mind , Sleep

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Science , Truth

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

Topic(s): Pursuit , Thinking , Mind

Since a rational man’s ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher the values, the harder the struggle — he needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Men , Needs

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Humans , Spirit

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Government , Interest

In order to live as we were designed to live, we must be in pursuit not simply of manhood but of godly masculinity. That begins by being men who are rightly related to God, who understand what it means to fear him, and who respond to that fear by being alert, standing firm in the faith, and being men of courage.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Men , Mean

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It’s not about liking what you write, it’s about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn’t happen overnight, it doesn’t happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Ifs , Writing

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Use , Names

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.

Topic(s): Pursuit , People , World

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Science , Scientist

Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called ‘sportsmanship’. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Use , Values

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Men , Mean

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Ifs , Knows

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that’s what I hope people realize.

Topic(s): Pursuit , People , Ifs

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Needs , Humans

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

Topic(s): Pursuit , Thinking , Giving

Iran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.