Top 100 Those Who Seek Quotes
#1. The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
Josh Jones
#3. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#4. Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.
Jim Rohn
#5. America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.
Christopher Bond
#6. History as well as life itself is complicated
neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
#7. Game of deducing a person's character from that person's appearance is an old pastime with racists and with those who seek an advantage over the poor or the ugly, the disabled, or any underrepresented minority.
Charles Baxter
#8. We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.
Woodrow Wilson
#9. 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
#10. To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
Anthony De Mello
#11. Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#12. [Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.
Blaise Pascal
#13. Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#14. Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.
Laozi
#15. The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.
Blaise Pascal
#17. Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#18. Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who seek knowledge and freedome will succeed even at there past.
Hamzat Haruna Ribah
#19. God's grace is available to all men especially those who seek Him with all their heart, soul, and mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. 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
#21. Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.
Khalil Gibran
#22. We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.
Matt Shea
#23. Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
Vaclav Havel
#24. Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
Paulo Coelho
#25. The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order ... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Arthur Henderson
#26. Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. The Lord loves all people, but He loves those who seek Him even more. To his chosen ones the Lord gives such great grace that for love they forsake the whole earth, the whole world, and their souls burn with desire that all people might be saved and see the glory of the Lord.
Silouan The Athonite
#28. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness
Randy Alcorn
#29. Some seek to act upon the world,
But success will not follow.
The world is inviolable:
It has no beginning and no end.
Those who seek to change it will be changed;
Those who grasp onto stones will find water.
Malinda Lo
#30. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.
John Matthews
#31. If God was with you all along, why did you rummage around this whole time in search of Him? Because although it is a fact that He cannot be found by seeking, only those who seek can find Him.
Elif Shafak
#32. The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.
Tomichan Matheikal
#33. Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.
Frederick Lenz
#34. A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Arnold Gingrich
#35. There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.
John Climacus
#37. 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
#39. Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.
Laozi
#40. Don't care what anybody says about enlightenment, except the enlightened and those who seek it.
Frederick Lenz
#41. The mysteries of universe are revealed to those who seek to know the truth of their own existence first.
Anjali Chugh
#42. There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
William Vickrey
#44. Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#45. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
Gary Hamel
#46. We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and often persecuted. Welcome to the planet earth: environment hostile.
Frederick Lenz
#47. All I can look after is my own farm, serve those who seek when they are sick. I have children to look after so that they will not know what hunger is.
-Istak
F. Sionil Jose
#48. Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.
Carl Sagan
#49. Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
A.W. Tozer
#50. Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C. OBSERVANCE
Robert Greene
#51. A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
Maajid Nawaz
#52. Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate.
Keith Ellison
#53. The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
Voltaire
#54. Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
Leon Kass
#55. 25It is good. The Eternal One is good to those who expect Him, to those who seek Him wholeheartedly. 26It is good to wait quietly for the Eternal to make things right again. 27It is good to have to deal with restraint and burdens when young.
Anonymous
#56. Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.
Horace
#57. Vespers In which the rest of the abbey is visited, William comes to some conclusions about Adelmo's death, there is a conversation with the brother glazier about glasses for reading and about phantoms for those who seek to read too much. At
Umberto Eco
#58. That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.
William J. Clinton
#59. The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry A. Kissinger
#60. Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
Horace
#61. Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
#62. of the time, inertia is the most powerful force in government. Those who seek change have to succeed at dozens of potential veto points. Those who seek to prevent change usually have to succeed at only one.
Brendan Williams
#63. The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed.
Malinda Lo
#64. Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom!
Paulo Coelho
#65. Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#66. Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.
Henry Rollins
#67. But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
Henry Van Dyke
#68. I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Anonymous
#69. Adept as he was in the Hegelian dialectic - a system easy of abuse by those who seek to dominate thought by arbitrary flights of fancy and metaphysical verbosity - he was not slow in finding a way out of the dilemma in which socialists found themselves.
Ludwig Von Mises
#70. Be wary of those who seek to steal your dream. Be even more wary of those who seek to tell you what your dream should be.
Ralph Marston
#71. The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
Allan Bloom
#72. If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then we
must be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutches
of those who seek to exploit their weaknesses
Oche Otorkpa
#73. We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
Barack Obama
#74. 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
#75. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
Jim Rohn
#77. 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
#78. 6And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God m must believe that he exists and m that he rewards those who seek him.
Anonymous
#79. Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy.
Ann Coulter
#80. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#81. If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.
James Bovard
#82. Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
James Anthony Froude
#83. Creativity occurs in introverted space. Instead of considering those who seek solitude as anti-social, weird and non-team players, let's learn to respect this gift which allows us to have a self worthy of sharing.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#84. Flee from those who seek to make you doubt yourself!
Joko Ono
#85. There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.
Byron Katie
#86. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert Kennedy
#87. Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.
Ge Hong
#88. Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Isabel Allende
#89. But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
Leonard Adleman
#90. Those who seek to listen to their own inner voice forget to listen to the judgment of others.
Vironika Tugaleva
#91. One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.
Noam Chomsky
#92. Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
Veronica Roth
#93. Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
Flann O'Brien
#94. Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
Sydney J. Harris
#95. Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.
Kirk Mango
#96. Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating
Muso Soseki
#98. Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.
Frederick Lenz
#99. Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell
#100. Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
P.G. Wodehouse
