Quests Quotes

• To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

  Plato

  Important, Courageous

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• He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

  Lev Grossman

  Doe

  Lev Grossman (2011). “The Magician King: A Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eternal

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• The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.

  Carl Sagan

  Truth, Inquiry

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.365, Ballantine Books

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• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

  Isaac Asimov

  Satisfaction, Scientist, Puzzles

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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• The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

  Mychal Wynn

  Life Is

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• More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Learning, Clarity Of Purpose

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• It is the spirit of the quest which helps

  Kabir

  Spirit, Helping

  Kabir “One hundred poems of Kabir”, Рипол Классик

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• True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.

  Socrates

  Heart, Perfection, Betterment

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• Nothing pains some people more than having to think

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.22, Beacon Press

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• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Healing

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

  Maya Angelou

  Mind, Identity, Roles

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• The longest journey is the journey inward.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspiration, Journey, Inward

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Heart, Dark, Light

  T. Thorn Coyle (2009). “Kissing the Limitless: Deep Magic and the Great Work of Transforming Yourself and the World”, p.16, Weiser Books

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• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Love, Dream, Missing Someone

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• The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Spiritual, People

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Memorable, Successful

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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• If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Religion, Trying

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

  Erich Fromm

  Block, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.

  Miley Cyrus

  True Friend, Needs, Kind

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• The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Peace, Home, School

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