Seek Quotes

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Past, Blame

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.
Barack Obama

Change, Time, Waiting

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Selfish, Laugh

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace, Goal, Means

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Means, Pure, Ends

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Love, Snow, Fire

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Great, Thought

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Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
Horace Mann

Truth, Find, Greatness

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Success, Goal, Motivation

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu

War, Win, While

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find, Shall, Flee

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.
John F. Kennedy

Science, Together, Stars

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Ambition

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.
Confucius

Yourself, May, Office

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin

Love, Reason, Solutions

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Wish, Followers

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Men

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez

Forget, Enough, Cannot

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

Women, Men, Ambition

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Experience, Else

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin

Travel, Lives, Forever

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Mind, Picture

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
Francis of Assisi

Love, Loved, Lord

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men, Others, Another

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton

Time, Give, Known

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell

Human, Perfection, Essence

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