Seek Quotes
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Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.
Epictetus
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
Heraclitus
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
Lord Byron
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Vaclav Havel
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A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
Martin Luther
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Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.
Ziad Abdelnour
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
Confucius
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Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.
Ben Harper
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Henry Scoop Jackson of Washington state said: Others may seek to make America great again. I seek to make America good again. For in the last analysis, our claim to greatness will be found in our goodness.
Henry M. Jackson
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
Plato
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What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, which it alone can make actual, which it alone can bring into the light of day.
Marcel Proust
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
Rumi
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Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.
Rumi
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God really is there if you seek Him out wherever you may be.
Agnes Moorehead
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the sorrowful penitent who is acceptable; that is the kind of woman these texts seek. One can’t help but think that the men who relish this recollection of Mary the penitent sinner are those who are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be, with women not enticing men with the dangers of sex but falling at their feet in humble submission and penitence.
Bart Ehrman
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I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
Confucius
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Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.
Confucius
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
Rumi
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
Lao Tzu
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Tacitus