Top 60 Guru Nanak Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Conquer your mind and conquer the world.”

— Guru Nanak

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2. “Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let’s become a Human first.”

— Guru Nanak

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3. “With your hands carve out your own destiny.”

— Guru Nanak

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4. “Speak only that which will bring you honor.”

— Guru Nanak

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5. “The world is a drama, staged in a dream.”

— Guru Nanak

6. “Those who have loved are those that have found God.”

— Guru Nanak

7. “Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.”

— Guru Nanak

8. “Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.”

— Guru Nanak

9. “Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.”

— Guru Nanak

10. “Be the wisdom your support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.”

— Guru Nanak

11. “The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.”

— Guru Nanak

12. “Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth – these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.”

— Guru Nanak

13. “Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.”

— Guru Nanak

14. “Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.”

— Guru Nanak

15. “O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings.”

— Guru Nanak

16. “Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.”

— Guru Nanak

17. “Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don’t understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian.”

— Guru Nanak

18. “Death would not be called bad, o people, if one knew how to truly die.”

— Guru Nanak

19. “Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.”

— Guru Nanak

20. “Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.”

— Guru Nanak

21. “Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.”

— Guru Nanak

22. “Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.”

— Guru Nanak

23. “Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”

— Guru Nanak

24. “I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

— Guru Nanak

25. “Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.”

— Guru Nanak

26. “I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.”

— Guru Nanak

27. “I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.”

— Guru Nanak

28. “Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.”

— Guru Nanak

29. “Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar’s bowl.”

— Guru Nanak

30. “God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.”

— Guru Nanak

31. “One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.”

— Guru Nanak

32. “I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.”

— Guru Nanak

33. “False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.”

— Guru Nanak

34. “See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.”

— Guru Nanak

35. “Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.”

— Guru Nanak

36. “Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”

— Guru Nanak

37. “The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.”

— Guru Nanak

38. “The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.”

— Guru Nanak

39. “I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.”

— Guru Nanak

40. “Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.”

— Guru Nanak

41. “Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, the Immaculate, Almighty Lord God, meeting Him, I meditate on the Name of the Lord.”

— Guru Nanak

42. “The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.”

— Guru Nanak

43. “Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.”

— Guru Nanak

44. “I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?”

— Guru Nanak

45. “The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord’s name But more is the one who knows by the Guru’s grace.”

— Guru Nanak

46. “Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.”

— Guru Nanak

47. “Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are beings of renunciation and detachment they are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.”

— Guru Nanak

48. “May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.”

— Guru Nanak

49. “My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.”

— Guru Nanak

50. “For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?”

— Guru Nanak