Top 500 Buddha Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.”

— Buddha

452. “If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.”

— Buddha

453. “With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.”

— Buddha

454. “Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.”

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

456. “Hate is only conquered by love.”

— Buddha

457. “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”

— Buddha

458. “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

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

— Buddha

460. “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

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

— Buddha

462. “I have the body of a GOD.”

— Buddha

463. “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

464. “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

465. “Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.”

— Buddha

466. “I am always at the beginning.”

— Buddha

467. “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

468. “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

469. “If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.”

— Buddha

470. “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

471. “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

472. “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

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

477. “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

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

— Buddha

479. “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

480. “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

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

483. “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

484. “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

485. “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

486. “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

487. “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

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

490. “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

491. “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

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

— Buddha

493. “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

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

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

497. “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

498. “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

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