Top 60 Quotes by Gautama Buddha

Quotes by Gautama Buddha: Siddhartha Gautam, also known as Buddha ‘The enlightened (or awakened) one’ was the spiritual leader and founder of Buddhism. Gautam was born in the royal family of Lumbini (Nepal) in the fifth century BC. He spent his childhood in the laps of luxury. Some saints predicted that he would either be a renowned spiritual leader or a noble king. Despite losing his mother at a tender age, his father kept him away from worldly miseries. He grew up and led a happy family life until he came across a corpse, a hermit, an old man and a sick person on one of his trips through the city. This opened his eyes to the sorrows and sufferings of the world. Thus, began a journey of self-discovery.

Here, In this article, we provide you with some of the best Inspirational quotes by buddha that makes you wiser. 

Also, Did you know? Gautam Buddha's Jayanti or Birth anniversary of Buddha celebration 19th May Every year.

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-Inspirational buddha quotes 

-Buddha quotes on change

-Buddha quotes on karma

-Buddha quotes on peace

-Buddha quotes on happiness

Quotes by Gautama Buddha

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -Buddha

• “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.”

• Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Buddha

• “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

• “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?”

• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha

• “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” - Gautama Buddha

• “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -Buddha

• “Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.”- Gautama Buddha

• “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”

• "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. -Buddha

• “You don’t have a Soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

• “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.”

• You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Buddha

• “All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.” -Gautama Buddha

Inspirational Buddha Quotes 

• To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. -Buddha

• “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” -Gautama Buddha

• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. -Buddha

• “Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” -Gautama Buddha

• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. -Buddha

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” -Gautama Buddha

• “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” -Gautama Buddha

• The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha

• “Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”

• “Suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.” -Gautama Buddha

• If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. Buddha

• “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” -Gautama Buddha

• A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. Buddha

• “Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.” -Gautama Buddha

• Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself. Buddha

• “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Gautama Buddha

• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha

• “I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.” -Gautama Buddha

Buddha Quotes on Change

• If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

• “To conquer ownself is a greater task than conquering others.”

• “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”

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

• Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the ocean's depth are calm.

• “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”

• “To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.”

• “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

• “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha

• “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

Buddha Quotes on Karma

• “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.”

• “Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma.”

• However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Buddha

• “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

• “Neither fire, nor wind, birth, nor death, can erase our good deeds.”

• “Whoever doesn’t flare up at someone who’s angry wins a battle hard to win.”

• “Not even death can wipe out our good deeds.”

• “Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”

• “Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.”

• “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

• “When action comes out of nothing it creates no karma.”

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

• “One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.”

• “One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.”

• “Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.”

• “Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”

Buddha Quotes on Peace

• “At the end of the day, I’m at peace because my intentions are good and my heart is pure.”

• “It’s better to travel well than to arrive.”

• What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.

• “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving, and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

• “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

• “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”

• “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”

• “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

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

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

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

• “Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.”

• “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act upon them?”

• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

• “To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.”

Buddha Quotes on Happiness

• “If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.”

• Happiness is not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot.

• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

• Happiness never decreases by being shared.

• “It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.”

• There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.

• Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

• “Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”

• It is ridiculous to think that somebody else can make you happy or unhappy.

• “One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.”

• Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

• A disciplined mind brings happiness