Top 1200 Pursuit Of Money Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.

I look forward to working across the aisle in pursuit of our common goal to get Kansas' fiscal house in order.

A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money in modern football.

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it.. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the IKEA employees.

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.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money-winners list.

There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

One of the things we have to understand is that federal transportation dollars require a local match. If that money isn't there, that money goes to another state.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

I wish I could spend my money with more pleasure, but I was one of those kids who squirrelled away my pocket money.

Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you don't have money to buy important players.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Michael Bisping versus Georges St-Pierre is a money fight, and the UFC loves money fights.

Money has not changed me. When I look at money, each dollar represents an option of something I could not do yesterday.

I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list.

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

People think that being rich is all about having money. But the times I've had the most money is when I've been unhappiest.

These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.

Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Money definitely doesn't stress me out. I really don't care about money... I probably should a little more.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

Until the ayatollahs that run Iran give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons, we cannot and should not ease the pressure on the regime to do so.

Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.

People get together and they donate to organizations so that a pile of money can be used to create a message that can be broadcast en masse as part of the a political campaign. They are the lifeblood of Hillary Clinton campaign, the banks and all these big time rich people from Hollywood and Silicon Valley are the mother's milk of her campaign. They are the money. She just doesn't want Donald Trump to have it or any other Republican to have it or any average citizen to be able to bundle his money with other people's money and create an ad or a campaign.

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

The difference is that the money I make from Reebok is per fight, meaning I have to fight to get that money. If I don't fight, there is no money. It's not based on me being a good spokesman or one of the faces of their company. It's a per fight thing. It's a very different thing. It's more like a fight bonus than a sponsorship.

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.