In Pursuit Quotes

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

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

The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

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.

I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

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.

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.

We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.