S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Seek freedom from the conformity of styles”
“Seek freedom within action.”
“Seek God every morning.
Trust God every moment.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Seek God, not happiness - this is the fundamental rule of all meditation. If you seek God alone, you will gain happiness: that is its promise.”
“Seek God's power and presence continually.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.”
Source: The Time of Your Life
“Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.”
Source: Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s
“Seek grace and guidance from God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Seek grace and manna daily.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth”
“Seek growth, not approval; cultivate depth, not applause.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Seek guidance for outer action, but be even more concerned with the desires of the heart, that they be consistent with the character of the Lord Jesus Christ. Never did He call upon men for protection, nor even upon angels, although they were sent to minister to Him. It was His own inner unification with the Father's heart that effected His preservation against all evil that was directed against Him. Even so, your own heart purity determines the extent of your personal preservation.”
Source: On the Highroad Of Surrender - Updated
“Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.”
Source: The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
“Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.”
Source: Frankenstein
“Seek happy nights to happy days.W”
“Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.”
“Seek His face and not His hand.”
“Seek home for rest, for home is best.”
Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century
“Seek humility with all your heart, and you will have the glory of God upon you.”
“Seek in Glen Massan no emotions of terror and the wild sublime, but a softer sentiment, roused by the forgotten Gaelic bard who sung the sorrows of the sons of Usnach; and in Tarsuinn, Garrachra and Glen Lean, I would restore, in fancy, shepherds and hunters on the grass-grown drove-road and the abandoned hill. The Clyde has drained those glens, not of their waters only, but of men, and melancholy broods among the shadows of Benmore as if it, too, remembered lonefully the unreturning generations.”
Source: The Clyde, River and Firth
“Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church
“Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.”
“Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.”
“Seek joy. Seek more questions than answers. Seek jobs, friends, lovers, homes in which or with whom you feel utterly yourself. Better yet, seek experiences that challenge you to become even more yourself — that is, to grow.
And if you should find more growth in movement, do not stop moving. And if you should find more meaning in stillness, stay still. And if at the end you still should wonder if you ever did find your calling, look back over the one inimitable path behind you, and ask your footsteps what you have learned.
Hint: The right questions lead not to answers, but to doors. We don’t find our calling, we walk it.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“Seek joyfulness when you can, for seeking joy leads to an auspicious atmosphere.”
Source: Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
“Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.”
“Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.”
“Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave”
Source: Al-Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
“Seek knowledge of thy soul.”
“Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.”
“Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.”
“Seek more opportunities to put more love in the world.”
“Seek more strength for weaker spine
No grape grows on sinner’s vine”
“Seek neither adventure nor security, seek to alleviate the suffering of others, and you'll have all the joy in the world.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Seek new skills.”
“Seek no authority over the lives of men; of that the Omniwill is master. Nor seek authority over the goods of men; for men are chained so much to their goods as to their lives, and they distrust
and hate the meddlers with their chains. But seek a way into the hearts of men through Love and Understanding; for once installed therein you can and better work to loose men of their chains. For love will guide your hand, while Understanding holds the lantern.”
Source: The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
“Seek no permission to fly; the wings are already yours, and the sky belongs to no master.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“Seek no reward, seek no applause, just keep on walking in the course of your cause.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind!”
“Seek not a lighthouse greater than the human mind! Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!”
“Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.”
“Seek not an audience when you are the only one sitting in the front row.”
“Seek not each man to please, for that
is more than God bids do:
Please thou the best, and neuer care,
what wicked say thereto.”
Source: A sweet nosgay, or pleasant posye: Contayning a hundred and ten phylosophical flowers
“Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)
“Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.”
“Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.”
“Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.”
Source: Selections from Epictetus
“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”