Seeking Quotes - Page 6

• In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dedication, People, Presidential

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.11, Best Books on

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• There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.

  Barack Obama

  Land, American West, Giving

  "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull", www.cnn.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Reality, Unity, Passionate

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• I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

  Marie Antoinette

  Revolution, Painful, Aids

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• Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Family, People, Poverty

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.

  Paola Antonelli

  Ideas, Design, Able

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• Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Loyalty, Honesty, Self

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• A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Fear, Lack Of Knowledge

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• There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Fear, Humble

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• There are a lot of millionaires being created in China. We should all be seeking that business, and I think there's enough to go around.

  Terrence Lanni

  Success, Thinking, Enough

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mean, Long, Age

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• Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

  Anna Held

  Husband, Men, Ask Me

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Knives, Shining, Confusing

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

  Langston Hughes

  America, Kind, Humans

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Tears, Satisfaction

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• The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are 'love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness,temperance: against such there is no law' (Gal. 5:22-23).

  James E. Faust

  Love, Lying, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiving, Tire, Mercy

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Men

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.380, Catholic Way Publishing

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in your face don't give up, keep moving forward. Use your brain and eliminate a lot of your personal agony. There are times when you should not take NO for an answer. But there are others when you should never put yourself in the place to be rejected to begin with. Seek the wisdom to know the difference and then go for it. Persevere in the face of disappointment.

  Jack White

  Art, Giving Up, Disappointment

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• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Beginners

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• If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

  Paul Brunton

  Pain, Successful, Men

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Men, Ideas, Looks

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• In terms of - my relationship with so many, many young people. I would - I would guess that there are many young people who would come forward. Many more young people who would come forward and say that my methods and - and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. And I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped. There are many that I didn't have - I hardly had any contact with who I have helped in many, many ways.

  Jerry Sandusky

  Impact, People, Done

  "Jerry Sandusky: 'I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped'". www.nydailynews.com. November 15, 2011.

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