Pursuit Quotes

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Tupac Shakur
“Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy”
Tupac Shakur

Napoleon Hill
“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Shannon L. Alder
“To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”
Shannon L. Alder

Terry Brooks
“It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”
Terry Brooks, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Erik Pevernagie
“Let us stop wracking our brains with vain and futile stories but keep it loosey-goosey without missing a beat of our life in our pursuit for authenticity.( "If he doesn't play ball")”
Erik Pevernagie

Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pliny the Younger
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

Erin Bow
“They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow.”
Erin Bow, Plain Kate

John Jay
“Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.”
John Jay

Criss Jami
“Genius - the pursuit of madness.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Vera Nazarian
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.

Art is a casual pursuit of significance.

Let's keep it in perspective.”
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Anne Giardini
“I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.”
Anne Giardini, The Sad Truth About Happiness

Ian Fleming
“Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.”
Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever

“If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”
Dan Chiasson

Cinda Williams Chima
“She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.”
Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

Thomas Jefferson
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Engage in no pursuit in which you cannot look up unto God, and say, 'Bless me in this, my Father!”
Legh Richmond

“In a world inundated with information, free speech emerges as a guiding principle that helps discern truth from misinformation. It empowers individuals to think critically, question authority, and participate in the collective pursuit of knowledge. The unfettered marketplace of ideas, where even the most unconventional notions find a platform, is the crucible in which intellectual resilience is forged, enabling societies to navigate the complexities of an ever-evolving global landscape.”
James William Steven Parker

Mirajj Thaker
“That fire in your belly is there for a reason: do not ignore it, rather, let it burn.”
Mirajj Thaker, JUST GO AFTER: Three Magical Words That Make Things Happen!

“Believe in your pursuit; Your believe makes it possible.”
Chidiebere Orji Agbugba

“In the quiet of the early morning, before the world stirs, there lies a sacred space where dreams merge with reality, and the potential of the day is limitless. It’s in this stillness that you can find the courage to pursue what truly sets your soul on fire.”
Shivanshu K. Srivastava

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