Seek Quotes

Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When the shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the fault in himself. (Confucius)
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. View quote
Sun Tzu
Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. View quote
Timothy Leary
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. View quote
John Stuart Mill
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. View quote
William Arthur Ward
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. View quote
Arthur Miller
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. (John Updike)
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. View quote
Abigail Adams
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. View quote
Harriet Martineau
I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you but one thing I know - the only ones among you who will be really happy will be those who have sought and found the way to serve. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. View quote
Barack Obama
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. View quote
Frank Herbert
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. View quote
Jerome
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. View quote
Edmund Waller
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. View quote
Solon
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville