Top 100 Seek It Quotes
#1. Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.
T.A. Barron
#3. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.
Margaret Fuller
#4. The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.
Mencius
#5. True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
David R. Brower
#6. Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life.
Rudolf Steiner
#7. If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.
Debra Ollivier
#8. Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity.
James E. Faust
#9. You see it is not enough to merely evade evil. One must seek it out and destroy it.
Carol Goodman
#10. Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
Ibn Ata Allah
#11. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton
#12. I used to move gracefully. I used to know the word grace to the center of my bones. Now I seek it every day and fall short, inevitably, every day. I lost grace.
Katherine Locke
#13. A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.
Ian Baker
#14. A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it.
Alan Cohen
#15. When someone needs you to be small, for them to be big, it's not love or friendship they seek; it's power.
Charles F. Glassman
#16. When the peace in not inside, we seek it outside. When the peace is not outside, we turn inside. Whether there is internal peace or an internal storm, it spirals outward to everyone you see and everything you touch.
Franklin Gillette
#17. CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.
John Bunyan
#18. Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.
Harold Klemp
#19. Love is our greatest achievement. Don't ever forget that. Don't squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know when a rogue wave might sweep you away.
Julianne MacLean
#20. Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
Boethius
#21. The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
Samuel Johnson
#22. Enlightenment doesn't make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn't erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us.
Balroop Singh
#23. The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.
Margaret Fuller
#24. All the power
in the
Cosmos
Exists
Inside You
Seek it not elsewhere.
Gabriel Iqbal
#25. Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.
John C. Reilly
#26. If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#27. When people look for the road in the clouds
The cloud road disappears
The mountains are tall and steep
The streams are wide and still
Green mountains ahead and behind
White clouds to east and west
If you want to find the cloud road
Seek it within
Hanshan
#28. There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it there.
Robert W. Chambers
#29. Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. The Heart is the Capital of the Mind - The Mind is a single State - The Heart and the Mind together make A single Continent - One - is the Population - Numerous enough - This ecstatic Nation Seek - it is Yourself.
Emily Dickinson
#31. Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#33. Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.
Michael Kitson
#34. Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.
Matthieu Ricard
#35. Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it
Carlos Castaneda
#37. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
George Eliot
#39. You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
Kahlil Gibran
#40. People need gods. They need faith. They need to believe in something bigger than themselves. It gives them succor when the world around them seems to be collapsing. They don't want truth. Those who desire it can seek it out.
James Berardinelli
#42. The naive lose it in dark woods,
but seek it under the street lamps.
Toba Beta
#43. Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
David Gemmell
#44. When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods
Epictetus
#45. There's a big difference to me between the people who are famous and just accept the fact that it comes with the territory of what they do, and the people who actively seek it out, who intentionally put themselves in the position of being on camera and being famous.
Jon Glaser
#46. Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
Louisa May Alcott
#47. Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know ... Head and heart ... You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.
Nora Roberts
#48. When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.
Wendell Berry
#49. The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.
Richard J. Foster
#50. Within us lies the peace, the beauty, the glory of our being. There is an ocean of all that. We cannot seek it outside, we have to go within.
Nirmala Srivastava
#51. When we feel like we belong we feel connected and we feel safe. As humans we crave the feeling and we seek it out.
Simon Sinek
#52. We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
Sharon Salzberg
#53. Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? ... I expect it will be sit and wait.
Barbara Pym
#54. Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.
Sanjo Jendayi
#55. And I wish to thank you as well, Royce."
He was puzzled. "For what?"
"For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.
Michael J. Sullivan
#56. My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I'll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I'll check it out.
Kate Micucci
#57. Happiness is a dream. A dream fulfilled by those who seek it the most.
Sheila Renee Parker
#58. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.
John Henry Newman
#60. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.
Pearl Primus
#61. We can't flee from temptation in our own strength - but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!
Billy Graham
#62. Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
Jemima Khan
#63. We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
Horace
#65. You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.
Tom Petty
#66. Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
Hakuin Ekaku
#67. Anger seek it prey,
Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
George Eliot
#68. You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
Mark Batterson
#69. Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.
Wayde Goodall
#70. ..the good life warrants an ongoing struggle to be clear about what's important, and to seek it with lucidity and passion; not to be distracted by false ambitions, or waylaid by dissipated conscious
Damon Young
#71. All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms. But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.
John Francis Xavier O'Conor
#72. If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.
Jared Padalecki
#73. In the end, the satisfaction which all of us seek, it seems, can come only from our discovering that we really have molded our life into whatever we want it to be.
F. Sionil Jose
#74. I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.
Bonnie Tyler
#75. I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#76. Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
William Cowper
#78. I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.
Lloyd Alexander
#79. Love was easy; commitment to that love was difficult. No one is perfect, and therefore there will never be a perfect relationship. But a perfect commitment can exist; it does exist for those who seek it.
Christin Lovell
#80. Of all miracles, none is more daunting than normal. To be - to become - normal. This gift seemingly so ordinary is not a gift given to all who seek it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#81. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
#82. The Tao is near and people seek it far away.
Mencius
#83. Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
Nancy Pelosi
#85. Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
Epictetus
#86. I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.
Josh Holloway
#87. Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Adulterers, in the first stages of the church, were excommunicated forever, and unqualified all their lives for bearing a part in Christian assemblies, notwithstanding they might seek it with tears, and all the appearances of the most unfeigned repentance.
Joseph Addison
#89. Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.
Elie Wiesel
#90. If you don't actively use your knowledge God has freely given you, you will never walk into God's predestined plan for your life. You must seek it and then get to work. It will not fall into your lap.
Latorria Freeman
#91. What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through.
Kamal Ravikant
#92. I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
Rebecca Hall
#93. To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
Bobby Ghosh
#94. And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#95. Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave Flaubert
#96. Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
Gautama Buddha
#97. Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?
A.E. Samaan
#98. A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Arnold Gingrich
#99. Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.
Pope Francis
#100. There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.
Charles Spurgeon
