Welcome to our collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes! Sometimes, a few well-chosen words have the power to uplift, motivate, or provide clarity in our lives. Whether you’re seeking words of wisdom to guide you through a challenging time, looking for inspiration to fuel your creativity, or simply enjoy the beauty of language, you’ve come to the right place.
In this curated selection of quotes, you’ll find insights from a diverse range of thinkers, writers, artists, and leaders from around the world. From timeless classics to contemporary voices, these quotes cover a wide array of topics including love, resilience, success, happiness, and much more. Whether you’re in need of a boost of confidence or a gentle reminder of what truly matters, there’s something here for everyone.
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I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. Audrey Hepburn
He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. Max Stirner
We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. Ed Markey
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. Alfred Adler
Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or feel. Mark Manson
The best people to listen to are those who have already been successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish. Brian Koslow
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. Ahmad Jamal
My prayer became ‘May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come. Tara Brach
I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America, boldly going to a strange new world, seeking new opportunities. My mother was born in Sacramento, California. My father was a San Franciscan. They met and married in Los Angeles, and I was born there. George Takei
Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don’t really like seeking too much attention. Gary Lineker
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. Laura Wasser
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks. Daniel Kahneman
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. Carl Jung
Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be… a goal of reporters today. John Ensign
The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don’t go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. Jarvis Cocker
To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels. Ilaiyaraaja
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. Frederick Sanger
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan
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
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Confucius
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace. Shaun King
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity – seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don’t let them in? Mandy Patinkin
‘The End of America’ details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one. Naomi Wolf
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. David A. Bednar
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot
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
Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress. Rex Tillerson
I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types – chemists and physicists and biologists and such – and we all have the same goal. We are making progress. Sheldon Lee Glashow
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself. Douglas Horton
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. Dave Reichert
The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom. Charles Stanley
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many aspects of nature. Steven Weinberg
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. John Ruskin
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament – to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve. John Bercow
There’s nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist. Dan Reynolds
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Emily Bronte
Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards. Ali ibn Abi Talib
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. Joseph Addison
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Coco Chanel
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. Edgar Allan Poe
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Billy Graham
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. Jayson Blair
Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution. Benigno Aquino III
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. Sonny Rollins
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. Mahatma Gandhi
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. Clarence Darrow
In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, ‘What makes for a long life?’ Katie Hafner
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. Michael Pollan
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. Graham Greene
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. Hermann Hesse
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord’s decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. Saint Basil
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. Edwin Louis Cole
Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God’s forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart. Said Nursi
What is sought can never produce the seeking. B. F. Skinner
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. Steven Chu
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. Camille Paglia
When I go to sleep, I want to know that I have experimented as an actor, and I am constantly seeking to evolve. Bhumi Pednekar
Your wardrobe can be your passport for success. What you wear to a new job interview or an audition can be of great impact and open doors for you. If you possess talent and faith in yourself, and wear clothing that enhances your personality, you have a 50 percent better chance of winning or gaining whatever you’re seeking. Walter Mercado
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately. Joseph B. Wirthlin
All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them. Robert Zoellick
If I only care about equality for transgender people, then I am leaving so many people behind – if I’m not at the same time seeking to end discrimination against people of color, seeking to end discrimination against women, seeking to ensure that people of every religious background have an equal opportunity. Sarah McBride
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Depression and anxiety affect a huge number of us. It’s so important that the barriers that keep us from talking, seeking out help, and finding a way to cope when things feel desperate are removed. Jacob Anderson
I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free. Vanity
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J. Paul Getty
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity. Petro Poroshenko
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. Denis Waitley
I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women. Carol S. Dweck
Since Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application. Michael Ignatieff
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself – the working-class tradition of self-education. Ken Livingstone
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch
I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. Tony Abbott
In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people. Joyce Meyer
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. Robert E. Lee
The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold ‘Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I’m on computers every day without actively seeking them out. John Hawkes
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. Ellen G. White
Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. John Wycliffe
I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens. Jackie Robinson
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand
The heroes behind Operation Warp Speed will never receive the credit they deserve under a vindictive Biden administration seeking to destroy Trump’s legacy. Miranda Devine
There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity. George Pataki
Studies have identified a significant ‘skills gap’ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world. Stephen Covey
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. T. S. Eliot
Al Qaeda’s message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. Elliott Abrams
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. Walter Cronkite
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire
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
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance. Richard von Weizsaecker
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I’m doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them. John Ortberg