Seeking Quotes

• It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Attention
  • Child

• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

  

  Waldo David Frank
  • America
  • Nature
  • Quality

• Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Seeking

• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

  

  Plato
  • Seeking
  • Engage
  • Indulge

• Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

  

  Albert Camus
  • True
  • Seeking
  • Desirable

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Opportunity
  • Yourself
  • Seeking

• We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.

  

  H. Emilie Cady
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Search

• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Life
  • Seeking
  • Hoped

• When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

  

  Michael Hintze
  • Ability
  • Earning
  • Incredibly

• Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Hope
  • Best
  • Seeking

• In the beginning, one soul split into two creating soul mates. And ever the two shall wander seeking each other.

  

  Cathy Hopkins
  • Soul
  • Two
  • Wander

• It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Wisdom
  • Seeking

• Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Found
  • Tradition
  • Stones

• Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.

  

  Tertullian
  • Found
  • Hear
  • Knocks

• Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Different
  • Findings
  • Seeking

• I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

  

  Isabella Bird
  • Dream
  • Seeking
  • Exceed

• When you are at one with the world, you often find that the thing you seek is seeking you.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • World
  • Seeking

• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Live
  • Fantasy
  • Matters

• A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Seeking

• Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Pleasure
  • Seeking
  • By-Product

• One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Brother
  • Find
  • Solomon

• If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Search
  • Possession
  • Seeking

• To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dies
  • Seeking

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