Pursuit Quotes - Page 7

Pursuits become habits.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.