Top 100 Seek Quotes
#1. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#3. Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.
William Lashner
#5. If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.
Joshua Slocum
#6. Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Stephen Covey
#7. I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
P.C. Cast
#8. To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
Anthony De Mello
#9. The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
John Lancaster Spalding
#10. I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. It's the only way to save ourselves.
Eboo Patel
#12. Tis not too late to seek a newer world
Heraclitus
#13. Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.
Lysa TerKeurst
#14. Why, I wondered, did people seek out portrayals of the very experiences that, in real life, would send them mad with despair? Shouldn't art be an escape, a laugh, a comfort, a thrill?
David Nicholls
#15. Truth and reread it daily: "When you seek happiness for yourself it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for others you will find it yourself." Practice making meaningful
Wayne W. Dyer
#16. In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.
Diana Wynne Jones
#17. Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#19. you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me ... and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.
T.F. Hodge
#21. But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda
#22. We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#23. When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean De La Bruyere
#25. We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.
Woodrow Wilson
#26. For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I'll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.
Paul Christensen
#27. Good men want only the power to make things right. Great men seek to make things right and gather the power to do so. Great leaders find those who are worthy of wielding power and set them to the task of making things right.
Kel Kade
#28. I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life's many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface, and yet deliver a potent message underneath, where everything becomes a symbol of something greater.
Dean F. Wilson
#29. But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?
Mark Frost
#30. Many children do not realize that they have a problem, much less that they need to seek help. One youngster commented that he thought all people saw words 'running off the page but that they were all quick enough to catch them'. He was not.
Dr Kate McMahon
#31. When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?
Muriel Barbery
#32. Fate does not always seek our consent.
Zedd
#33. Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
Ben Vereen
#34. If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#35. Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together.
Charlie W Shedd
#36. To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.
Clive Cussler
#37. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light
Gu Cheng
#38. What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Ken Wilber
#39. The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.
Auliq Ice
#40. The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
Kaz Cooke
#41. I do not want him to die. No elf does. However, if every waking moment is a torment to him, then won't it be better for him to seek release?" Neither
Christopher Paolini
#42. As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov
#43. Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#44. You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.
Lloyd A. Green
#45. Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge
Kathleen Wynne
#46. But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
Virginia Woolf
#47. Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.
Blaise Pascal
#48. Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.
A.J. Darkholme
#49. The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#50. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
Alexis De Tocqueville
#52. When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.
Linda K. Burton
#53. MSNBC policy requires journalists to report any potential conflict of interest and to seek approval from the president of NBC News before making any political contribution.
Bill Dedman
#54. The word of the Lord to us is to stop seeking His benefits and seek Him. We are not to seek His hands any longer, but seek His face.
Tommy Tenney
#55. PSA40.14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Anonymous
#56. Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.
Charles L. Allen
#57. It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have ... we always want more.
Joyce Meyer
#58. seek those joys that fade not, which are laid up in a place of bliss - safe there for those who go in search of them.
Mary Godolphin
#59. We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
Philip Slater
#60. 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
#61. Christ provides us with settings that promise stillness. He guides us into havens that encourage comfort. He desires us to seek and secure moments of rest so that our souls might be renewed.
Baker Publishing Group
#62. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
Henry A. Kissinger
#63. We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
Horace
#64. There are two ways to be powerful. One is to seek and acquire power, the other is not to need it. There are also two ways to be rich. One is to gain riches, and the other is not to need them.
William Sloane Coffin
#65. Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
Ameen Rihani
#66. If you seek for truth, be prepared to find the otherwise.
Toba Beta
#67. His basic message is meant to put steel in their backbone and to encourage them to run the race and seek the prize of Heaven. He comes to remind them that they have an enemy who seeks to destroy them.
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John Bunyan
#68. Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well.15
Winston S. Churchill
#69. We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.
Voltaire
#71. Art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
Dore Ashton
#72. From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well ...
Michel De Montaigne
#74. Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone.
Bohdi Sanders
#75. It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Morris Graves
#76. From where inspiration comes, I don't know. But that we seek fulfillment in a companion suggests we desire an object onto which we may project our gratitude. Many of these objects do not transcend the imagination . . . nor do they need to.
Tom Fahy
#77. Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.
Terry Pratchett
#78. What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.
Cory Bernardi
#79. A soul cannot seek close fellowship with God, or attain the abiding consciousness of waiting on Him all the day, without a very honest and entire surrender to all His will.
Andrew Murray
#80. My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke
#81. In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.
Mark Dvoretsky
#82. Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.~ Ian Anderson
Ian Anderson
#83. To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Meister Eckhart
#84. Seek for truth,
you'll find me;
Peek for lies,
you'll blind me
Munia Khan
#85. The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
Karen White
#86. Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.
Martin Rees
#89. Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.
Criss Jami
#90. Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
John Milton
#91. I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. Do you seek to bribe Death? Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.
Piers Anthony
#93. Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...
Carew Papritz
#94. We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement.
Gary Chapman
#95. After all, we all know Hide and Seek can be a scary game, especially when we don't want to be found.
Callie Hunter
#96. I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.
Betty Friedan
#97. to be a witness to the grace and power of our Lord to keep us united with Himself, and seek by word and
Andrew Murray
#98. Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.
Dalai Lama
#99. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran
#100. You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.
Bernard Lagat
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