These archery quotes and Instagram captions are a bullseye for archers, archery enthusiasts, and fans of the sport around the world.
The art of using a bow to shoot an arrow may draw up images of Robin Hood splitting an arrow in half, hunting, or combat from days gone by. Nowadays, archery is mostly a sport and fun activity. Enjoy!
Best Archery Quotes
Of all the archery quotes our panel reviewed, these were are favorites.
1.) The archer is the true weapon; the bow is just a long piece of wood.
Sebastien de Castell
2.) The arrow is an extension of your soul.
Unknown
3.) It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
Aristotle
4.) The worst thing is to try to shoot as well as your previous shot.
Unknown
5.) A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
Thomas Fuller
Funny Archery Quotes
- In archery, we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius - I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale.
Curly Howard - An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn’t know where the target is.
Unknown - I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class, we had two weeks of archery, and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.
John Barrowman - I taught him archery every day, and when he got good at it he threw an arrow at me.
Arabic Proverb - Our mental discipline is matched only by our skill in archery… I only hope these are enough to withstand this awful trial.
Stieg Hedlund - I can teach you to shoot better than the greatest archer in 30 minutes provided we blindfold him and spin him around so he doesn’t know where the target is at.
Peter Hill - It’s basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
Elizabeth Streb - No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not, in the end, make me his target.
Saadi - I’m not sure why anyone on the face of the planet would want to use a bow and arrow. I mean, it seems like a fairly limited field of expertise and usefulness. Unless your name is Katniss.
Andrea Portes
Good Quotations on Archers and Archery
- Words are like arrows. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.
Unknown - You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran - I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. And, I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don’t think I am in communion with the universe.
Paulo Coelho - Forget the last arrow, only the next one counts.
Archery Insiders - The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind.
Fred Bear
Motivational
- If you would hit the mark [at long range], you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Our ancestors used the bow for a double purpose: in the time war, it was a dreadful instrument of destruction; and in peace, it became an object of amusement.
Joseph Strutt - Archery evolved into a competitive sport not only in Europe but also in Asia and the United States.
Teresa Johnson - An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow, but it is afraid of not reaching the target!
Mehmet Murat ildan - Among the arts that have been carried to a high degree of perfection in this kingdom, there is no one more conspicuous than that of Archery.
Joseph Strutt - Archery tournaments and festivals remained strong in Europe long after bows were replaced by gunpowder for defense.
Teresa Johnson - Nearly every culture in the world has created some form of archery in its history-for survival, combat, and competition.
Teresa Johnson
Short
- Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.
Fred Bear - I didn’t think I could be any more awesome, and then I tried archery.
Unknown - Archery does not get difficult or hard to understand until the arrow misses.
Milan E. Elliott - Don’t shoot fast. Shoot good.
Unknown - Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
D.T. Suzuki - There is no excellence in archery without great labor.
Maurice Thompson - I don’t enjoy indoor archery especially with myself as a possible target.
Richard Schayer - The archer that shoots badly has a lie ready.
Spanish Proverb - Archery is trouble, only the one who endures it knows.
Unknown - In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.
Henry Thoreau
Fun
- Archery is something that I took up later and didn’t know I had a natural aptitude for.
Geena Davis - Focus on the target and let your feelings go.
Unknown - If you don’t have a target to aim for; you are going to miss it anyway.
Clifford Aga - No shot is hard to make, it’s just easier to miss.
Unknown - Archery is the skill of shooting arrows from a bow at a target.
Andrew Harrison - If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
William Shakespeare - Shoot archery because you love it. Winning is just something extra.
Unknown - There are two types of archeries; the “Target Archery” and the “Field Archery.”
Andrew Harrison
Beginner’s Tips Video
Zen and the Art of Archery Quotes (from the book)
Eugen Herrigel was a German philosophy professor. He is credited with introducing Zen to western countries through his book, Zen and the Art of Archery, which was distributed in the 1940s and 1950s. His book inspired over 200 other titles with a similar title of “Zen and the Art” including the acclaimed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
- The man, the art, the work–it is all one.
Eugen Herrigel - The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background.
Eugen Herrigel - The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel - How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and Master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone.
Eugen Herrigel - The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfillment, but brace yourself for failure.
Eugen Herrigel
More from Eugen Herrigel
- In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects but are one reality.
Eugen Herrigel - The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
Eugen Herrigel - Don’t think of what you have to do, don’t consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel - What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
Eugen Herrigel - You worry yourself unnecessarily. Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind!
Eugen Herrigel
On Breathing
The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background… In due course, one even grows immune to larger stimuli, and at the same time detachment from them becomes easier and quicker.
Care has only to be taken that the body is relaxed whether standing, sitting, or lying, and if one then concentrates on breathing one soon feels oneself shut in by impermeable layers of silence. One only knows and feels that one breathes.
And, to detach oneself from this feeling and knowing, no fresh decision is required, for the breathing slows down of its own accord, becomes more and more economical in the use of breath, and finally, slipping by degrees into a blurred monotone escapes one’s attention altogether.
Eugen Herrigel
Inspirational Archery Quotes
- But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.
Maurice Thompson - The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to re-create the perfect technique over and over and over.
Geena Davis - Other archers are not my competition. I stand with them, not against them.
Unknown - Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split the first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can’t see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don’t even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life.
Zig Ziglar - But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.
Maurice Thompson - Archery is like a journey, it begins with a love for shooting a bow and a passion for watching our arrows fly.
Ron Laclair - In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it’s very broken. It’s not pretty. When you’re in archery, you can’t try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn’t flow and it’s not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it’s really beautiful.
Miranda Leek - Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or even advanced archer, Archery will give you something that’s almost impossible to find elsewhere.
USA Archery
Archery Sayings
- The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Kahlil Gibran - So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.
Maurice Thompson - You have to relax when you’re shooting an arrow. You can’t be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
Stephen Amell - Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
English Proverbs - Archery is the game that involves the shooting of arrows that is released from the bow and shot at a target.
Andrew Harrison - The more you shoot at anything. The more fun it becomes, Whether it be target or out in the wilderness.
Brady Ellison - Even as the archer loves the arrow that flies, so too he loves the bow that remains constant in his hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Archery Captions For Instagram
- Bullseye!
- Straight as an arrow.
- I don’t wear bows. I shoot them.
- Making my point.
- Aim high, and let her fly.
- Grip it, rip it, put it in the wind!
- Some arrows miss their target.
- Tug on my bowstrings.
- Fierce mind; brave spirit.
- Aim small, miss small.
- Archery School Dropout (But, my dad pulled some strings and I’m back in)
- Nothing like the sound of a good TWACK in the morning!
- I aim to please.
- Arrow dynamics.
- Aim, shoot, swear, repeat.
- Archery makes me quiver.
- Sons of Archery!
- Bury me where my arrow falls.
- Archery Legend.
- Archery has a few drawbacks.
- Take a Bow.
- It’s bow season.
- Blindfolded Archery: We don’t know what we’re missing.
- You need to learn to be slow in a hurry.
- When I nock my arrow, I unlock my soul.
- Follow your arrow.
- Robin who?
- I like splitting arrows.
- We will, we will, Nock you!
- We were social distancing before it was cool.
- Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.
- Breathe, believe, and battle.
- Archery is a feeling you can’t explain.
–Phil Herman
Phil writes about sports, history, and entertainment.
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