Gautama Buddha Quotes

When things are going well, be mindful of adversity When prosperous, be mindful of poverty When loved, be mindful of thoughtfulness When respected, be mindful of humility.

Gautama Buddha

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• Adversity
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• Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Poverty
  • Masses
  • Rising

• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • May
  • True
  • Humility

• I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Home
  • High

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Poverty
  • For Him

• For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • War
  • Government

• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Law
  • Community
  • Action

• How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Kind
  • Adversity

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Humility

• Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Balance

• The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Work
  • Poverty

• If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Time
  • Writing
  • America

• Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

  

  Jay Parini
  • World
  • Poverty

• I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Company
  • I Hate
  • Steals

• For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • American
  • Small
  • Hand

• There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Moral

• Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• When things are going well, be mindful of adversity When prosperous, be mindful of poverty When loved, be mindful of thoughtfulness When respected, be mindful of humility.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Poverty
  • Humility
  • Adversity