Seekers Quotes

• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

  38 Copy quote

• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

  142 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  16 Copy quote

• If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Trying

  "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Moon, Sky

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  27 Copy quote

• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

  Woody Allen

  Failure, Trying, Learning From Mistakes

  17 Copy quote

• I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Motivational, Opportunity, Lucky

  26 Copy quote

• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  139 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "A Short Guide To A Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

  Marva Collins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  181 Copy quote

• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Self Esteem

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

  Khalil Gibran

  Hands, Silence, Listening

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

  100 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Discovery

  "Anna Karenina".

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

  114 Copy quote
• 

  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

  621 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1352 Copy quote

• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

  479 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

  57 Copy quote

  Show source