Seek Quotes

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

I do not seek. I find.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.