I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?
Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.
The first and most important rule to observe. . . is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.
The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?
The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.
Pursuits become habits. [Lat. , Abeunt studia in mores. ]
It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
Trust is a careless pursuit.
People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable
Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.