Arrows Quote by 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

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

— Gautama Buddha

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

— 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

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

— Alexander Hamilton

“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make…

— Daniel C. Dennett

The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.

— Napoleon Hill

Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first to lay…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

— Thomas Jefferson

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

— Henry David Thoreau

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

— Confucius

As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which…

— Swami Vivekananda