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Quotes about Pursuit

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.
— Steven James
Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
— Zendaya
All men are in search of happiness. . . . This is the motive for men's every action, even those who are going to hang themselves.
— Miroslav Volf
The earthly desires men cherish are shadows. There is no true happiness in fulfilling them. Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance? Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy. Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire itself becomes our chief satisfaction.
— Thomas Merton
And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him
— Isabel Allende
Hi. I'm on the run from the FBI, Interpol, and a Las Vegas criminal gang," I announced bluntly, to avoid any misunderstandings. "Congratulations," he said.
— Isabel Allende
You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.
— Caeleb Dressel
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
— George Weigel
Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Money is shy and elusive. It must be wooed and won by methods not unlike those used by a determined lover in pursuit of a mate. And, coincidental as it is, the power used in the wooing of money is not greatly different from that used in wooing a lover. That power, when successfully used in the pursuit of money, must be mixed with persistence. It must be applied through a plan, and that plan must be set into action.
— Napoleon Hill