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Quotes about Pursuit

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
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
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.
— Aristotle
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
— Parker Palmer
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
— Oscar Wilde
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
— St. Augustine