In Pursuit Quotes

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

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

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

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

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

I love the pursuit of songwriting, and I've seen what songs can do in people's lives. Some of the stories that come back from songs flying around the globe are so encouraging.

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.