Seek Quotes
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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
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The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
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Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
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We seek to be as nimble as a startup.
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We shall now seek that which we shall not find.
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In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
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What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.
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To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
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Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
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The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
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The fact that God is sovereign over the distribution of gifts (1 Cor. 12:7) is no reason not to seek the gifts. God is sovereign over our food too, but though he desires to provide it for his children (see Matt. 6:25–34) and wants us to seek his kingdom first (Matt. 6:9–10, 33), he expects us to pray for him to provide our food (Matt. 6:11; 7:7–11).
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
