Seek Quotes - page 6

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. (Ellen Glasgow)
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. View quote
Grandma Moses
That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. View quote
Herbert Croly
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. View quote
Hugh Mackay
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. View quote
Robert Toombs
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. View quote
Spencer Bachus
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. View quote
Vernon A. Walters
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. View quote
William P. Leahy
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. (Wilhelm Ostwald)
Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. View quote
Pythagoras
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights. View quote
Samuel Alito
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life. View quote
John Tyler
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation. View quote
Jean Piaget
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought. View quote
Maimonides
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. (Douglas MacArthur)
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price. View quote
Paulo Coelho
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm. View quote
Paulo Coelho