To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.