Quotes of Quest - somelinesforyou

“ More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. ”

- Francois Gautier

“ We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved… ”

- Dora Russell

“ I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. ”

- Dan Brown

“ Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. ”

- Julia Cameron

“ Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. ”

- Bryant H. McGill

“ leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence…not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives. ”

- Marsha Sinetar

“ The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking. ”

- Fo Yan

“ I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ 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. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. ”

- Fred Astaire

“ Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. ”

- Laurens Van der Post

“ I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that... you really must make the self. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ Listen to me, you who are pursuing righteousness, you who are seeking Jehovah. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug. ”

- Bible

“ In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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

“ In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. ”

- Harold Bloom

“ My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. ”

- Real Live Preacher

“ succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait. ”

- Teddy Carroll

“ To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. ”

- Sam Keen

“ Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest. ”

- Mariah Burton Nelson

“ Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. ”

- Heinrich Suso

“ Take us on the quest of service, Kingly servant of man's needs. Let us work with Thee for others, Anywhere Thy purpose leads. ”

- Eleanor B. Stock

“ The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. ”

- Norman Cousins

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

- Mychal Wynn

“ 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
  • 1
  • 2