Pursuit Quotes

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

Happiness eludes us if we run after it.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

Still humping the American Dream

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.