Pursuit Quotes - Page 2

After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.

Freedom is free from fears, choice of faith.

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

If you truly want to pursue and achieve the success you were created for, you must recognize the role of vision, the significance of dreams and the power of actions without which you are just making a living.

We can do great things only by the divine grace.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished document and point to where they were promised “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” But you’ll find that though they all parrot that little phrase, they think none too hard about that word “pursuit”. To follow, to chase, to inquire, to hunt, to seek. To track in order to overtake and capture. This they don’t do. Instead, having been offered a promise of happiness, they progress to a feeling of entitlement for happiness, then make the leap that happiness should, therefore, be easily won, automatic. There’s too much wrong in there to even scratch at that!

Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

You have to look inside, to pursuit spirituality.

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

Begin to pursue your dream.

The holy writings are my greatest inspiration.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

If we delight in God, He shall give us our hearts desires.

I am giving my best in the pursuit of my most cherished dreams.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

You have to want your dream enough to pursuit it.

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose.

My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing.

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.

For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.

True satisfaction comes when the pursuit of purpose in the kingdom of God comes first

Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the pursuit to end all pursuits.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

You ought to pursue love and spiritual sacred-gifts.

In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.

The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improve the human mind, and give it new sources of power and enjoyment … narrow minds think nothing of importance but their own favorite pursuit, but liberal views exclude no branch of science or literature, for they all contribute to sweeten, to adorn, and to embellish life … science is the pursuit above all which impresses us with the capacity of man for intellectual and moral progress and awakens the human intellect to aspiration for a higher condition of humanity.[Joseph Henry was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, named after its benefactor, James Smithson.]

You can do it. Go ahead and pursue your dreams.

Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.

To be successful is to be a carrier of kingdom in every life pursuit

You aren’t in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

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. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.

Life must be live daringly.

Pursue your dreams with great might.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence.

The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!

Most of us are continually engaged in some form of pursuit. We are seeking excellence within one or more areas in our lives, and that is the basis of our motivation. It is human nature to have a need to get ahead, need a little something more—it’s in our DNA. Although we may not be certain of what we need at any given moment, we know there’s something. It’s a competitive itch and desire to improve that never goes away.

For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger

The pursuit of dreams is the purity of divinity.

Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to the people who made up the world I knew, I could not attach my signature. I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love of the thing-in-itself - not a philosophic attachment, but a passionate, desperately passionate hunger, as if in this discarded, worthless thing which everyone ignored there was contained the secret of my own regeneration.

To reach greater heights, we must refuse the negative opinions of people and passionately pursue your destiny.

The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness.

I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.

Nothing makes you feel smaller than New York City...

Fulfilling your divine passion brings gladness.

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

How could we have unearth our greatest potential without adversity?

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can’t manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only ‘find’ these things, we will never sense any compulsion to ‘find’ God.

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.