#Pursuit Quotes

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

“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.”

“She is a woman, therefore to be won.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.”

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

“True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!”

“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.”

“Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

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

“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”

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

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

“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”

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

“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.”

“Happiness eludes us if we run after it.”

“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.”

“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

“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.”

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

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

“There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.”

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

“Life is the mistress to be wooed.”

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

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

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

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

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

“"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land.”

“Still humping the American Dream”

“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.”

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