Seek Quotes - page 4

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. (Richard Bach)
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. View quote
Og Mandino
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. View quote
Og Mandino
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
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. View quote
Hermann Hesse
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. View quote
Stephen Covey
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. View quote
William Cowper
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. (Eugène Delacroix)
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. View quote
Agatha Christie
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Seek on earth what you have found in heaven. View quote
George William Russell
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. View quote
Sun Tzu
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. View quote
Bob Marley
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. View quote
William Blake
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. View quote
Anwar Sadat
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. (Charles Caleb Colton)
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. View quote
Hesiod
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
I sought trains; I found passengers. View quote
Paul Theroux