Pursuit Quotes

• Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

  Mario Andretti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Moving On, Live Life

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• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Gratitude, Memories

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Girly, Children

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Country, Hunting

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• Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Humble, Men

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

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• There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Discovery, Funeral

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• All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Liberty

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Pursuit Of Happiness, Opportunity

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• It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Add

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• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Men, Self

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

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• Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, Faith, God

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2013

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

  Branch Rickey

  Zest, Effort, Joy

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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