Top 100 The Quest Quotes
#1. He (The 4th Doctor) concludes, as befits his Bohemian heroism, that the quest itself fulfils the quest - to travel is better than to arrive, and taking part is more triumphant than winning.
Philip MacDonald
#2. I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.
Joely Fisher
#3. One of my greatest lessons has been to fully understand that what looks like a dark patch in the quest for success is the universe pointing you in a new direction. Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.
Oprah Winfrey
#5. Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
James Altucher
#6. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. Harris
#7. Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.
Jeff Schaffer
#8. To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
Charles Colson
#9. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.
Brigid Brophy
#10. Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
R.C. Sproul
#11. I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
Mary McCarthy
#12. Sometimes in the quest of searching the stars in others eyes, we fall into the never ending pit of darkness.
Akshay Vasu
#13. Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
#14. The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights.
Carolyn Porco
#15. My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.
H. Rider Haggard
#16. There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.
Shah Rukh Khan
#17. Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
Max Heindel
#18. The difference between the quest for the Holy Grail and someone saying 'bring me a cup' is the flavor text and the number of stops involved.
Bryan Fields
#19. Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.
Isaac Asimov
#20. When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
Sharon Salzberg
#21. The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. Fire, water, earth, and air,
All meet in the dragon's lair.
Six brave hearts have failed the test;One continues in the quest.
Remember well the words you know
When on to find your fate you go.
Emily Rodda
#23. There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
Max Lucado
#24. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.
Sean Carroll
#25. The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
Alan Hirsch
#26. The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.
Martin Luther
#27. The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
Nate Silver
#28. Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
Longchenpa
#29. Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.
Steve Maraboli
#30. The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.
William Greider
#31. He thought that all human religion and philosophy could be reconciled. That the quest for knowledge was the highest good; and that somewhere, between all the wars and debate, there was some universal truth he could discover which would bring humanity together.
Elizabeth Hunter
#32. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. The quest for seizing that amygdala moment, those crushing seconds of unbearable, incapacitating shock, seizing these moments and not letting them go, dragging them out for as long as is operationally necessary, that, said Sid, is the aim of the Bucha effect.
Jon Ronson
#34. It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.
Eve Ensler
#35. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
Carlos Castaneda
#37. The quest for identity from the images we see; god of America: Father TV.
J.D. Tulloch
#38. Yet, the quest for knowledge will overcome us and we must know. And, at last, we must see where the road ends, even if it be the cliff.
Nancy B. Brewer
#39. To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.
Deepak Chopra
#40. It is said that in every Persian carpet there is an error created by the weaver to avoid making a mockery of the belief that only Allah is perfect. Writing a novel is the quest for a perfection every writer knows can never be achieved, but is obliged to Set out to write a masterpiece.
Chloe Thurlow
#41. Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.
Boyd K. Packer
#42. My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.
Geoffrey West
#43. I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.
Michele Bachmann
#44. The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Remy De Gourmont
#45. Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which the reward represents.
Ralph Marston
#46. People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.
Joseph Campbell
#47. The quest may be about enkantos
but in truth. It is a quest of the heart! A quest to know and meet the eternal.
Arnold Arre
#48. Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come,
A thief a warrior and a mole.
Though the quest may take its toll,
We'll march until we reach our goal,
Brian Jacques
#49. each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lay ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
Yuri Milner
#51. I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Margaret Bourke-White
#52. The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
Nick Denton
#53. Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.
Michel De Montaigne
#54. In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
John Mayer
#55. In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.
Mahmud Shabistari
#56. If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero. --A Hero Born, pg 344
Michael A. Stackpole
#57. I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.
Alfred Tennyson
#58. The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.
Ida Tarbell
#59. Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.
Phar West Nagle
#60. The Quest not only begins in the heart but also ends there.
Paul Brunton
#61. More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
Francois Gautier
#62. I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.
Philippe Petit
#63. In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.
Julia Gillard
#65. There are no shortcuts on the quest for perfection.
Ben Hogan
#66. Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou
#68. Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.
Pope Benedict XVI
#69. The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.
Robert Fogel
#70. The quest toward a windmill is more fulfilling than an empty stroll, sometimes, even if the windmill isn't real.
Elizabeth Silver
#71. My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
Michael Franti
#72. The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#73. It is the spirit of the quest which helps
Kabir
#74. Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.
Ahmed Zewail
#75. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
#76. The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright
#77. it was not the objective that made one a hero - it was the journey, the quest itself.
Morgan Rice
#78. Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.
Jeremy Carver
#79. The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#80. The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
Hannah Arendt
#81. Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
Arthur C. Clarke
#82. I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.
Brendan Gleeson
#83. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we?
Douglas Adams
#84. The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.
Arianna Huffington
#85. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.
Brene Brown
#86. Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don't want the love - I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me?
Carrie Fisher
#87. Freedom lies in the quest for it, and ends where people have stopped asking about it.
Anonymous
#88. Theism pushes the quest for intelligibility outside the world. If God exists, he is not part of the natural order but a free agent not governed by natural laws. He may act partly by creating a natural order, but whatever he does directly cannot be part of that order.
Thomas Nagel
#89. The beginning of her story is lost to us, with the memory of the world from which she sprang. The end? The end is not yet, and when it comes we shall not know it. We have only the middle, or rather a piece of that middle, the smallest part of the legend, a mere fragment of the quest.
George R R Martin
#90. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.
Pope Francis
#91. The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. There are countless reasons for reading, but when you're young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.
Michael Cart
#93. Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
Branford Marsalis
#94. Statesmen can strive for the universal values of justice, fairness, and tolerance, but only so far as they do not interfere with the quest for power, which to him is synonymous with survival.
Robert D. Kaplan
#95. The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.
Carlo Petrini
#96. We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
Hjalmar Branting
#97. The very conception of such a completion of the task of science is a contradction in terms. The quest of science is, therefore, by its nature a never-ending task in which every step ahead with necessity creates new problems.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#98. It's the fun part 'cause you don't have any of the real heavy-lifting to do. You just come in and shout and chew scenery, and just be awful and say a few jokes, and you don't have to carry the romantic storyline or the quest part of the story. You just pop up, every now and again.
Justin Theroux
#99. A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life
Dean Cavanagh
#100. I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Paulo Coelho
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