Pursued Quotes

If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I never pursued a career relentlessly

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

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

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country.

I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

Pursued by our origins... we all are.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

I love to be pursued. I think that when you're not a challenge, it's just nnot as fun for the guy.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.

There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

Acting is what I've pursued since I was a child.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.