Seek Quotes
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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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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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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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I didn't have to go all the way to India for spiritual enlightenment. The blue-collar spirituality of everyday life was right in front of me, it was in every nook and cranny if I wanted to seek it, but I had chosen to ignore it.
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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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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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We seek to be as nimble as a startup.
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If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.
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[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.
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The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
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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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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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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.
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He does not seek glory - yet people respect him.
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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
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We shall now seek that which we shall not find.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
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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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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
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Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
