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

  85 Copy quote

  Report Show source

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  76 Copy quote

  Report

• 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

  106 Copy quote

  Report

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Moving On, Live Life

  "Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind".

  84 Copy quote

  Report Show source

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

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  16 Copy quote

  Report

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

  40 Copy quote

  Report

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Patience, Philosophical

  24 Copy quote

  Report

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  344 Copy quote

  Report
• 

  The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Government, Politics

  93 Copy quote

  Report

• 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

  80 Copy quote

  Report

• 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

  60 Copy quote

  Report Show source

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

  Antoine Rivarol

  Fog, Enchantment, Add

  40 Copy quote

  Report

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

  C.P. Snow

  Love, Happiness, Happy

  52 Copy quote

  Report

• 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

  48 Copy quote

  Report
• 

  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)

  156 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, God

  39 Copy quote

  Report

• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  385 Copy quote

  Report

• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Encouraging

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

  62 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

  37 Copy quote

  Report Show source

• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  144 Copy quote

  Report

• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  11 Copy quote

  Report

• Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  17 Copy quote

  Report

• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  92 Copy quote

  Report

Page 1 of 40

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →