Top 500 Buddha Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.”

— Buddha

52. “It is better to travel well than arrive.”

— Buddha

53. “It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.”

— Buddha

54. “Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.”

— Buddha

55. “If you know something hurtful and not true, don’t say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don’t say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.”

— Buddha

56. “I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don’t look at me; look at the moon.”

— Buddha

57. “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”

— Buddha

58. “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

— Buddha

59. “A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”

— Buddha

60. “Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”

— Buddha

61. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

62. “Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”

— Buddha

63. “As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.”

— Buddha

64. “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”

— Buddha

65. “One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.”

— Buddha

66. “Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.”

— Buddha

67. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

— Buddha

68. “Be a lamp unto yourself.”

— Buddha

69. “How easy it is to see your brother’s faults, How hard it is to face your own.”

— Buddha

70. “If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?”

— Buddha

71. “The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.”

— Buddha

72. “What is most needed is a loving heart.”

— Buddha

73. “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

— Buddha

74. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

75. “Live like a mighty river.”

— Buddha

76. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”

— Buddha

77. “Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.”

— Buddha

78. “Don’t blindly believe what I say. Don’t believe me because others convince you of my words. Don’t believe anything you see, read, or hear from others, whether of authority, religious teachers or texts.”

— Buddha

79. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

— Buddha

80. “There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”

— Buddha

81. “Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”

— Buddha

82. “Pain is the outcome of sin.”

— Buddha

83. “All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.”

— Buddha

84. “Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.”

— Buddha

85. “There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.”

— Buddha

86. “Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”

— Buddha

87. “The gift of truth excels all other gifts.”

— Buddha

88. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

89. “Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.”

— Buddha

90. “Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.”

— Buddha

91. “Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.”

— Buddha

92. “In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”

— Buddha

93. “Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.”

— Buddha

94. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

95. “Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.”

— Buddha

96. “Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”

— Buddha

97. “If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

— Buddha

98. “Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.”

— Buddha

99. “Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”

— Buddha

100. “Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.”

— Buddha