Seek Quotes
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
Flann O'Brien
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Colin Ward
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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
Confucius
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao Tzu
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Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Edmond Jabes
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
Will Durant
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We shall now seek that which we shall not find.
Thomas Malory
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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.
Brennan Manning
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The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.
Gautama Buddha
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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.
John Calvin
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Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
Gautama Buddha
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
George William Russell
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It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.
Arthur Morrison
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Isabel Allende
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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.
Alan Redpath
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We seek to be as nimble as a startup.
Beth Comstock
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If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
Epictetus
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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman