Pursuit quotes
168 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness."
"I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum."
"Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it."
"Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution."
"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity."
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"Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit."
"Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer."
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
"Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person"
"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person."
"Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits."
"Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't."
"You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits."
"Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?"
"Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do."
"There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent."
"Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united."
"When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness."
"Love is the pursuit of the whole."
"The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial."
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
"Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge."
"The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession."
"No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life."
