Pursuit Quotes

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Not everyone who chased the Zebra, caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Love is a competition. If you don't think so, then you're crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?