These quest quotes will inspire you. Quest is a journey made in search of something or a long or arduous search for something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging quest quotes, quest sayings, and quest proverbs.
Best Quest Quotes
- “To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.” ~ Plato
- “He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.” ~ Lev Grossman
- “In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a 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
- “Once something is answered, then there’s another question. Hence the eternal quest.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“The words “question” and “quest” are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It’s about the quest, not the grail.” ~ Isaac Asimov
- “Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “The greatest quest in life is to reach one’s potential.” ~ Mychal Wynn
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“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.” ~ Francois Gautier
- “It is the spirit of the quest which helps” ~ Kabir
- “True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.” ~ Socrates
- “Nothing pains some people more than having to think” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “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
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“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “The longest journey is the journey inward.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.” ~ T. Thorn Coyle
- “To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.” ~ Anna Louise Strong
- “If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.” ~ E. O. Wilson
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“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.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero’s journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.” ~ Joseph Campbell , Adventure quest quotes
- “If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft
- “The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.” ~ Erich Fromm
- “I need more friends. It’s kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.” ~ Miley Cyrus
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“The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.” ~ Silvia Cartwright
- “Always engage in the quest for life’s meaning, which is inner peace.” ~ Longchenpa
- “History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.” ~ Haile Selassie
- “There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.” ~ Ronald Reagan
- “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.” ~ Dora Russell
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“You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.” ~ Chris Prentiss
- “Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!” ~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- “What greatly attracted me – and it was the main line of advance of Cubism – was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space… that was the earliest Cubist painting – the quest for space.” ~ Georges Braque
- “Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.” ~ Robert Thurman
- “What, after all, are the world’s deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual’s problemsâthe meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society’s problems are deep, but the individual’s problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.” ~ J. I. Packer , Quest quotes of life
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“Every man’s life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.” ~ Lyman Abbott
- “Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the “right” answers, but by asking meaningful questions.” ~ Terry Winograd
- “The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.” ~ William J. Brennan
- “It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.” ~ John Wooden
- “If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman’s description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.” ~ Ian Sansom
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“Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “The heart is God’s most magnificent creation, and the prize over which he fights the kingdom of darkness.
Now consider this – marriage is the sanctuary of the heart. You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life’s great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.” ~ John Eldredge - “Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.” ~ Nachman of Breslov
- “Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.” ~ Gao Xingjian
- “I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of integrity, depth, sensuality and strength have always been my source of inspiration, the reason for what I do and how I got to where I am today. They are all my muse. If my quest, in what I do – to make women look and feel beautiful – reflects even a tiny fraction of my deep-rooted respect for them, and succeeds in celebrating these lives of strength and substance, then I will consider it a job well done.” ~ Prabal Gurung
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“In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.” ~ Elie Wiesel
- “Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one’s special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.” ~ Carl Safina
- “The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches…Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.” ~ Brian Jacques
- “Stand for something. Don’t quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.” ~ Howard Cosell
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“The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.” ~ Joyce Meyer
- “Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.” ~ Pope Benedict XVI
- “Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.” ~ George Lucas
- “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.” ~ Edmund Wilson
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“In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.” ~ Jeanette Winterson
- “Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.” ~ Andy Stanley
- “Quests always have their ups and downs,’ rumbled the giant. ‘The point is never to give up, even if you’re falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.” ~ Nancy Farmer
- “My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.” ~ Ruth Bernhard
- “Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.” ~ Sharon Gannon
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“Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.” ~ Jack W. Hayford
- “Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn’t much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He’s a new man in every way that involves relationships.” ~ Kay Robertson
- “The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.” ~ Hannah Arendt
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“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.” ~ Remy de Gourmont
- “There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an Order of the Quest. It is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret Destiny… The outcome of this ‘secret destiny’ is a World Order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. This king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the Order of the Illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.” ~ Manly Hall
- “Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.” ~ Tim Jackson
- “Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing…. We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.” ~ Pope Francis
