Gautama Buddha Quotes

When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

Gautama Buddha

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• Competition
• Celebration

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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Individuals

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Political

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Help
  • Win
  • New York

• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Life
  • Business
  • Trust

• Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Capable

• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Best
  • Accept

• Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pride

• If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Family
  • Simple
  • Humanity

• I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Job
  • Beginning

• When you move your focus from competition to contribution life becomes a celebration. Never try to defeat people, just win their hearts.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Win
  • Competition