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Quotes about Pursuits

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
- Andrew Jackson
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
- Cicero
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
- William James
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
- Charles Spurgeon