Top 500 Buddha Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.”

— Buddha

402. “Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.”

— Buddha

403. “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

— Buddha

404. “I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.”

— Buddha

405. “Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.”

— Buddha

406. “I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That’s how you should train yourself.”

— Buddha

407. “If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.”

— Buddha

408. “I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.”

— Buddha

409. “After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.”

— Buddha

410. “Don’t rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don’t infer or be deceived by appearances.”

— Buddha

411. “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”

— Buddha

412. “If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.”

— Buddha

413. “Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.”

— Buddha

414. “With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.”

— Buddha

415. “One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.”

— Buddha

416. “Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.”

— Buddha

417. “To know and not to use is not yet to know!”

— Buddha

418. “Our good and bad deeds follow us almost like a shadow.”

— Buddha

419. “Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.”

— Buddha

420. “All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.”

— Buddha

421. “The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”

— Buddha

422. “Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.”

— Buddha

423. “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

— Buddha

424. “Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.”

— Buddha

425. “Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.”

— Buddha

426. “Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.”

— Buddha

427. “Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.”

— Buddha

428. “The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.”

— Buddha

429. “Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.”

— Buddha

430. “We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?”

— Buddha

431. “Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.”

— Buddha

432. “Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.”

— Buddha

433. “Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it...”

— Buddha

434. “Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.”

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

436. “To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

— Buddha

437. “Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others – he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.”

— Buddha

438. “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

439. “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

440. “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

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

— Buddha

442. “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

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

— Buddha

444. “Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion; cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill to all that lives.”

— Buddha

445. “Conquer a liar with truth.”

— Buddha

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

— Buddha

447. “One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.”

— Buddha

448. “But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one’s sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.”

— Buddha

449. “I teach about suffering and the way to end it.”

— Buddha

450. “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