Top 40 Karma Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What goes around, comes around.”

— Willie Nelson

2. “Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway.”

— Ajahn Brahm

3. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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4. “You cannot fail unless you quit.”

— Abraham Lincoln

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5. “Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.”

— Deepak Chopra

6. “Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.”

— Randy Pausch

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7. “Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you.”

— Miguel Ruiz

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8. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

— Wendy Mass

9. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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10. “There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”

— Sylvester Stallone

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11. “Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma.”

— Thubten Yeshe

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12. “The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.”

— Pema Chödrön

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13. “Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.”

— Gary Zukav

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14. “Move with the flow. Don’t fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don’t try to carry it.”

— Oprah Winfrey

15. “Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”

— Earl Nightingale

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16. “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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17. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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18. “The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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19. “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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20. “It’s impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you’re grateful. If you’re in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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21. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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22. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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23. “The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.”

— Brian Tracy

24. “Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

25. “Instant Karma is going to get you.”

— John Lennon

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26. “Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.”

— Marianne Williamson

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27. “See karma, make dharma.”

— Gary Gach

28. “When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: ‘This is right,’ or, ‘That is wrong,’ we create negative karma.”

— Gary Zukav

29. “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

30. “To live without risk is to risk not living.”

— Pope Pius XII

31. “When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

32. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

— Bruce Lee

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33. “Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of “acceptance” is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.”

— Eckhart Tolle

34. “Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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35. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

— Walt Whitman

36. “Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.”

— Deepak Chopra

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37. “I am a road man for the lords of karma.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

38. “Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel’s book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.”

— G.I. Gurdjieff

39. “Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.”

— John Locke

40. “As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.”

— Amish Tripathi