Seek Quotes

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

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

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

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

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I seek out good work.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.

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.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

This is actually true of the overall fight against al-Qaeda and trans-national extremists, that as you put pressure on them in one location, they'll seek safe haven sanctuaries in other areas. So you do have to continue to pursue them. But they have less capability.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.