Archer Quote by Gautama Buddha

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

— Gautama Buddha

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

“Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.”

— Various

“a wise man should always enter those paths trodden by great men, and imitate those who have been most excellent, so that if one’s…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

— George Eliot

“For since men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others, and yet are unable to adhere exactly…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it.…

— Roger Zelazny

Archers are pretty focused.

— Geena Davis

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round…

— Confucius

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

— Gautama Buddha