Quotes About Pursuing

#1. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him; and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: Thy right hand has upheld me.

A.W. Tozer

#2. We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine.

Ellen J. Barrier

#3. T's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.

Alan Chambers

#4. Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.

David Bryant

#5. I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#6. I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Michael Showalter

#7. Don't let small people keep you from pursuing your big dreams.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

Edwin H. Friedman

#9. The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.

Aleksandar Hemon

#10. My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Denise Juneau

#11. When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

Richard Dawkins

#12. When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Arthur Miller

#13. My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

Paul Cezanne

#14. The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Edmund Burke

#15. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

John F. Kennedy

#16. Selling without targeting is like sailing without a compass. Think before you invest more time in pursuing the lead.

Timi Nadela

#17. It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#18. The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Michael Polanyi

#19. I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Sylvester Stallone

#20. My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

Mandy Moore

#21. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive.

John Steeksma

#22. Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

John F. Kennedy

#23. I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

Sean Penn

#24. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. Focus your intuitive thoughts to identify what is truly worth pursuing.

Steven Redhead

#26. You create a strong, unshakable internal core by unshakable internal core by understanding and pursuing the attributes that you want to inherit from your creator

Sunday Adelaja

#27. Reach - The art of relentlessly pursuing a divine assigned goal or objective beyond expectations.

Catherine Crumber

#28. What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

Dinesh D'Souza

#29. As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.

Peter Block

#30. When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#32. From CATS ARE KIND
I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
I was puzzled by this;
I accosted the dog.
'If you catch one,' I said
'What will you do with it?'
'Dumb cat,' he cried,
And ran on.

Henry N. Beard

#33. In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

Madhuri Dixit

#34. You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Harold S. Kushner

#35. All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace.

Pope Francis

#36. It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#37. Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Andrew Bernstein

#38. The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

Marc Andreessen

#40. Any day could be the last of life or liberty, so small pleasures were always worth pursuing.

Lee Child

#41. Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.

J. Budziszewski

#42. We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.

Michael D. Barnes

#43. Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room: Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air.

Xi Jinping

#44. Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

Barbara Olson

#45. I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way.

Marlo Thomas

#46. If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.

Steven Pressfield

#47. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#48. In the course of our Journey we need to realize that we do not need to become anything, because we are already in possession of the characteristics that we have been looking for so far, pursuing an image projected into the future.

Frank M. Wanderer

#49. It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#50. Every song you love, every memory you cherish, every moment that has moved you to holy tears has been given to you from the One who has been pursuing you from your first breath in order to win your heart.

John Eldredge

#51. I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

Iain McGilchrist

#52. The problem is that "by now" is a phrase we say to ourselves when we're trying to believe the lie that it's too late to start pursuing our dream.

Jon Acuff

#53. God desires to reveal His heart to us and to build His heart into us as we seek His face.

Bill Mills

#54. People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

Frances Hesselbein

#55. I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

Logan Lerman

#56. There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.

Tyler Oakley

#57. Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

#58. Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It's about effectively serving others in the ways I'm best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.

Kevin DeYoung

#59. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Paul Miller

#60. The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

Milton Friedman

#61. The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

Richard Engel

#62. Despite my funny feeling about her, I regretfully obliged to his interest in pursuing a sexual relationship with her. I knew James only wanted the pussy, but I could see in Raven's eyes that she wanted more.

Jessica N. Watkins

#63. If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.

Eugene Burger

#64. You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

Alex Steffen

#65. My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

#66. Abide not with dualism,
Carefully avoid pursuing it;
As soon as you have right and wrong,
Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

Edward Conze

#67. Our happiness is made up of our needs being fulfilled, our fears being kept at bay in a life made up of days, which are based on pursuing what is most important to us.

Malti Bhojwani

#68. The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269

Calvin C. Jillson

#69. All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

William Gibson

#70. In my experience, there's no secret to accomplishing almost any goal worth pursuing.

Lauren Graham

#71. The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

John Piper

#72. The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.

Kenneth Eade

#73. We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.

Venugopal Gupta

#74. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

Adam Braun

#75. The police were actually adding to my pain and
suffering by pursuing me. If it had been Huntley doing that to me and I had the proof, I would have said, 'Hey, Mr Policeman, Huntley is giving me trouble here,' and then they might have sent him a letter, at the very least.

Stephen Richards

#76. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Garrett Hardin

#77. To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.

John Sexton

#78. In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Stephen Baldwin

#79. It's about making a contribution to the world. Which is why when we are in the midst of pursuing our calling, we must not only ask if this is something that we are good at, but if it is something good.

Jeff Goins

#80. I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

Blake Mycoskie

#81. They were bound together by a common love of a certain kind of music, physical beauty, and style - all the things one shouldn't throw away an ounce of energy pursuing, and sometimes throw away a life pursuing.

Andrew Holleran

#82. As Cal Bocock sat in the back of the Astoria patol car, he realized his earlier feeling of hitting a low point had been a false alarm. He now fully expected he would die in police custody, in the hands of those he had been pursuing all these months.

Joey Ledford

#83. Think about it if you must, but remember: If something is worth pursuing, you shouldn't waste time. Situations change faster than you can split an orcish skull, and a moment's hesitation could cost you your chance.

Markus Heitz

#84. I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

Sonja Sohn

#85. I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

Jennifer Doudna

#86. there's more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief.

Pema Chodron

#87. The problem with pursuing bad feelings was that it was always difficult to tell if one was running towards a problem to fix it, or running to a problem to create it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#88. If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Bo Bennett

#89. Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Isaac Barrow

#90. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant.

Matt Chandler

#91. I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Dermot Mulroney

#92. I don't really know exactly what the plan is ... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.

Todrick Hall

#93. It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

Michael Josephson

#94. Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.

Unknown

#95. Time goes too slow for those who are bored, to quick for those who procrastinate. Too long for those without goals and too short for those without focus. But for the man or woman who lives a life pursuing purpose, timing is perfect, and their time is always now.

Dwaun S. Cox

#96. Success is knowing your God given life purpose and pursuing it Passionately, Persistently, and Consistently until you die.

Tom Cunningham

#97. The trouble with his daughter, though, was not ordinary naughtiness but the infuriating way she had of relentlessly pursuing the thread of an argument long after she should have put it down. It always flustered him. She

Terry Pratchett

#98. Practice living every moment of your daily life deeply and in freedom. If that's what you really want, then what you need to do is let go of pursuing the past, the future, and all your worries, and come back to the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#99. What you lose pursuing your dreams is waiting for you once you achieve them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#100. Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.

Wylie Dufresne