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

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.
Sun Tzu

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

To seek the highest good is to live well.
Saint Augustine

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

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake

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

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Dwight L. Moody

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot

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

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

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise Pascal

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Blaise Pascal

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush