Top 500 Buddha Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.”

— Buddha

352. “A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.”

— Buddha

353. “Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.”

— Buddha

354. “O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.”

— Buddha

355. “Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.”

— Buddha

356. “Know what you do not know.”

— Buddha

357. “A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one’s head.”

— Buddha

358. “Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.”

— Buddha

359. “Few are those among men who have crossed over to the other shore, while the rest of mankind runs along the bank. However those who follow the principles of the well-taught Truth will cross over to the other shore, out of the dominion of Death, hard though it is to escape.”

— Buddha

360. “When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.”

— Buddha

361. “The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.”

— Buddha

362. “The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.”

— Buddha

363. “Karma grows from our hearts. Karma terminates from our hearts.”

— Buddha

364. “In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.”

— Buddha

365. “The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”

— Buddha

366. “There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.”

— Buddha

367. “He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

— Buddha

368. “Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world – harmlessness towards all living beings.”

— Buddha

369. “Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.”

— Buddha

370. “You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.”

— Buddha

371. “Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.”

— Buddha

372. “Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.”

— Buddha

373. “Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.”

— Buddha

374. “As you travel though life, offer good wishes to each being you meet.”

— Buddha

375. “To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.”

— Buddha

376. “To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.”

— Buddha

377. “When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is.”

— Buddha

378. “Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.”

— Buddha

379. “Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp.”

— Buddha

380. “Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.”

— Buddha

381. “If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.”

— Buddha

382. “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”

— Buddha

383. “You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?”

— Buddha

384. “It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.”

— Buddha

385. “Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.”

— Buddha

386. “Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.”

— Buddha

387. “If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.”

— Buddha

388. “Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.”

— Buddha

389. “Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.”

— Buddha

390. “Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.”

— Buddha

391. “The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and arguments. As the lotus rises on its stalk unsoiled by the mud and the water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world.”

— Buddha

392. “The good renounce everything. The pure don’t babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.”

— Buddha

393. “A great gift – a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.”

— Buddha

394. “Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle.”

— Buddha

395. “Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.”

— Buddha

396. “In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.”

— Buddha

397. “When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one’s mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare.”

— Buddha

398. “You are all the Buddha.”

— Buddha

399. “If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.”

— Buddha

400. “When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.”

— Buddha