Pursuit Quotes

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Tupac Shakur
“Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy”
Tupac Shakur

Napoleon Hill
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Shannon L. Alder
“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”
Shannon L. Alder

Terry Brooks
“It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”
Terry Brooks, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Erik Pevernagie
“Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity.( "If he doesn't play ball")”
Erik Pevernagie

Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pliny the Younger
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

“Always move forward. Don’t dwell on the if-onlys.”
Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!”
Mary Kate

Erin Bow
“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate

John Jay
“Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.”
John Jay

Criss Jami
“Genius - the pursuit of madness.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Vera Nazarian
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.

Art is a casual pursuit of significance.

Let's keep it in perspective.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Anne Giardini
“I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.”
Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness

Ian Fleming
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.”
Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever

“If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”
Dan Chiasson

Cinda Williams Chima
“She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.”
Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

Thomas Jefferson
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!”
Legh Richmond

“That’s what happens when you blindly pursue what you most desire, I guess. You sometimes find yourself… in a place you never imagined going.”
Tim Siedell

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“We chase stuff in an effort to give our lives something they don’t have despite the fact that we’re not even sure what that is or how much of it we need.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

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