Top 100 To Seek Quotes
#1. We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.
Heber J. Grant
#2. Doubt ... impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, ... faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
Vincent Bugliosi
#3. No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.
Paul Brunton
#4. The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
David Mitchell
#5. You do not need to waste your time doing those things that are unnecessary and trifling. You do not have to be rich. You do not need to seek fame or power. What you need is freedom, solidity, peace and joy. You need the time and energy to be able to share these things with others.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#6. Eliminating the death penalty ... will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.
Scott Harshbarger
#7. It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
Saint Augustine
#8. My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
Joel Salatin
#9. But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.
Jane Austen
#11. It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. Find the courage to seek out your big dream, regardless of what anyone else says or thinks.
Oprah Winfrey
#13. To love the glory of God more than our own glory is also to seek approval from God rather than other people.
John R.W. Stott
#14. We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples.
R.C. Sproul
#15. 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
#16. The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
John Lancaster Spalding
#18. Tis not too late to seek a newer world
Heraclitus
#19. 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
#20. We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom.
T.F. Hodge
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light
Gu Cheng
#24. 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
#25. The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.
Auliq Ice
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#31. Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
Alexis De Tocqueville
#32. 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
#33. To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process
Meister Eckhart
#34. 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
#35. Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
Khalil Gibran
#36. We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
Horace Mann
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
Joseph Addison
#44. That which you are looking for may be calling you to seek.
Phil Cousineau
#45. Sir 40:26 Riches and strength lift up the heart: but above these is the fear of the Lord. Sir 40:27 There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help. Sir 40:28 The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.
Various
#46. Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Tennyson
#47. What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us.
Donella Meadows
#48. What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
Saint Basil
#49. One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life
Meg Donohue
#50. A girls heart must be so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find her
Dannah Gresh
#51. Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor
that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)
Soren Kierkegaard
#52. We're being trained through our incarnations
trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
Ram Dass
#53. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion - good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.
Dan Brown
#54. Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But
Augustine Of Hippo
#55. I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.
Joe Biden
#56. From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
Fabiola Gianotti
#57. Our Heavenly Father does not usually cause us to seek the Savior till He has whipped us clean out of all our confidence; He cannot make us in earnest after Heaven till He has made us feel something of the intolerable tortures of an aching conscience, which is a foretaste of hell.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#58. We are of such value to God that He came to live among us ... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#59. The primary reason people seek job security is because that is what they are taught to seek, at home and at school..then with debt loads, they must cling even tighter to a job, or professional security, just to pay the bills.
Robert Kiyosaki
#60. We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall
#61. Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better.
Donald Miller
#62. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
#63. How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Theodore Dalrymple
#64. Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.
George R R Martin
#65. Penalties were established for refusal to work, for leaving a place of employment to seek higher pay, and for the offer of higher pay by employers. Proclaimed when Parliament was not sitting, the ordinance was reissued in 1351 as the Statute of Laborers.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#66. If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.
Libba Bray
#67. It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.
Wallace D. Wattles
#68. And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
Miguel De Unamuno
#69. This is the journey marriage calls us to, to seek to understand and empathize, for each of us to strive to become a redemptive partner rather than a legal opponent.
Gary L. Thomas
#70. This is why I am continuing my travels - not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.
Hermann Hesse
#71. Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.
Frederick Lenz
#72. I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.
Gerald R. Ford
#73. Lord, I have learned to seek You early. Not only early in the day but also early in every situation that arises. Help me to put my hope in You immediately in all circumstances so that discouragement never takes root.
Stormie O'martian
#74. The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Alexander Pope
#76. Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#77. In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
George J. Mitchell
#78. Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Thiruvalluvar
#79. Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#81. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
Wes Moore
#82. Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere ... for the solace to its troubles.
Pope Leo XIII
#83. The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
William James
#84. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#85. My aim was never to seek a force and take power.
Hosni Mubarak
#86. What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views - these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side - but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.
H.L. Mencken
#87. So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
#88. As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
Kenneth Grahame
#89. To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
Jane Jacobs
#90. 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
#91. The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Idries Shah
#92. I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#93. Christ had the good of souls in his eye ... When you preach, let this be your design, to seek to recover lost sheep ... to get some converted, and brought in to your Master.
J.I. Packer
#94. People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.
Newt Gingrich
#95. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
#96. I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
Andrew Thomas
#97. Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of living. He died to seek and to save those who are lost.
Reinhard Bonnke
#98. Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.
Billy Graham
#99. 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
#100. I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.
Tsai Ing-wen
