Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Devoting yourself to the well-being of others will bring you support from the Universe when you need it most.
This quote suggests that when you focus on helping others and contributing to their welfare, the greater forces of the Universe will align to provide assistance to you when you most require it. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of humanity and how selfless actions reap rewards, often at the most opportune moments.
Themes
UniverseSupportServiceAdvantageOthersDevotion
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about community service.
More from R. Buckminster Fuller
All quotes →There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
R. Buckminster FullerRead
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
Similar quotes
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
Christopher McdougallRead
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
Marquis De LafayetteRead
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.
Ludwig Von MisesRead
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
Swami VivekanandaRead
What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.
Carl JungRead