Quotes about Pursuit
I am looking for my heart.
— John Eldredge
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
— John F. Kennedy
To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.
— John Henry Newman
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
— Vince Lombardi
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
— Brian Tracy
A hard man is good to find.
— Mae West
Be of good courage, all ye that trust in the Lord; you may, you ought, without fear or dauntedness of spirit, to engage into the pursuit of universal holiness. He who hath commanded it, who hath required it of you, will bear you out in it.
— John Owen
Seek wisdom, and success will find you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
— Aristotle
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
— Henry David Thoreau
The one who is sufficient for the life and work of the ministry is the one who "lives the life of faith and prayer" and who seeks to fill "his head [with] all knowledge and his heart with all holiness" in pursuit of his Lord.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile