Top 500 Buddha Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.”

— Buddha

452. “Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.”

— Buddha

453. “There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.”

— Buddha

454. “Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.”

— Buddha

455. “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

— Buddha

456. “As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.”

— Buddha

457. “Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.”

— Buddha

458. “There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.”

— Buddha

459. “Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.”

— Buddha

460. “Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.”

— Buddha

461. “Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.”

— Buddha

462. “Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.”

— Buddha

463. “Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, “it will not benefit me.” As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.”

— Buddha

464. “As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”

— Buddha

465. “The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.”

— Buddha

466. “Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.”

— Buddha

467. “Rain falls, wind blows, plants bloom, leaves mature and are blown away; these phenomena are all interrelated with causes and conditions, are brought about by them, and disappear as the causes and conditions change.”

— Buddha

468. “To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.”

— Buddha

469. “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation – this is the greatest blessing.”

— Buddha

470. “If you don’t disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.”

— Buddha

471. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”

— Buddha

472. “From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat.”

— Buddha

473. “To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.”

— Buddha

474. “To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”

— Buddha

475. “One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.”

— Buddha

476. “How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it.”

— Buddha

477. “What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?”

— Buddha

478. “A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.”

— Buddha

479. “Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.”

— Buddha

480. “Do not breathing in the chronological, do not dream of the later, drain the intellect on the bring about twinkling.”

— Buddha

481. “Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.”

— Buddha

482. “Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.”

— Buddha

483. “Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.”

— Buddha

484. “Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.”

— Buddha

485. “Hate never ends hate. Only love can.”

— Buddha

486. “Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.”

— Buddha

487. “Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.”

— Buddha

488. “He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release – the way of such a person is hard to follow, like the path of birds through the sky.”

— Buddha

489. “Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.”

— Buddha

490. “There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.”

— Buddha

491. “If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.”

— Buddha

492. “All rising to great places is by a winding stair.”

— Buddha

493. “Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.”

— Buddha

494. “Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.”

— Buddha

495. “If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.”

— Buddha

496. “All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.”

— Buddha

497. “Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.”

— Buddha

498. “Don’t give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight – for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.”

— Buddha

499. “The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.”

— Buddha

500. “For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.”

— Buddha