“ The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 1.7K
“ This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken. ”
- Joanna Baillie- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. ”
- Alan Bates- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. ”
- Gene Fowler- Copy
- 1K
“ I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. ”
- Claude Bernard- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 437
“ Love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
- 3K
“ A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away? ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ”
- Richard Whately- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. ”
- Dan Dierdorf- Copy
- 2K
“ Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little … oh, I admit only a very little … of what life is about. ”
- Françoise Sagan- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds… ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people. Free nations will help us achieve the peace we all want. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap. ”
- Simon Cowell- Copy
- 477
“ You are a tourism state. We think there is more potential on the coast than anything we can do. So I'll just leave that with you, then if there are opportunities between the two systems that provide a mutual benefit that can benefit both British Columbia and Alaska and the systems themselves then I'm very much interested in pursuing those. ”
- Dan Miller- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. ”
- Said Musa- Copy
- 264
“ Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits, which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers an fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts… ”
- James Allen- Copy
- 914
“ The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual… ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 2.1K
“ One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 2.5K
“ History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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