Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.
Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.
The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.
My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.
There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.
The pursuit of happiness. . . is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.