Quotes about pursuit

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

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

— Laurence Sterne

Ifyouaspiretoacquirethedesireyouadmireandyoufirbutitsbackfiredon'tretirebutrefiretoacquirethedesireyouadmire.

— Aristotle