Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Gautama Buddha Quotes: As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
         

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.


Gautama Buddha
Check all other quotes by Gautama Buddha

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Gautama Buddha Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Tue. 30 Apr. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/As-irrigators-lead-water-where-they-want-600304>.





Check out


Other quotes of Gautama Buddha


Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.



Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.



Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.



If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading



Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.



Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.



Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.



Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.



The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.



Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.





Other quotes you may like


Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.



Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.



If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.



People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.



My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.



Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.



No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.



The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.



As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.



Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.". Author of this quote is Gautama Buddha. This quote is about arrows, buddhist, wisdom, want, water, wise,.