Famous Quotes 75 Top Buddha Quotes

 75 Top inspirational Buddha Quotes in English

Buddha was a monk, philosopher, mendicant, sage, teacher and religious leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. Gautama Buddha is the primary figure in the religion of Buddhism. He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. So after some Intro, Here are some of the famous & Inspirational quotes by Buddha on love, life, death, anger, hatred, suffering, happiness and peace that will make you wiser.

Inspirational Buddha Quotes

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

2. “Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”

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

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

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

6. “In separateness lies the world’s greatest misery; in compassion lies the world’s true strength.”

7. “As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.”

8. “Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”

9. “Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.”

10. “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.”

11. “As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.”

12. “Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.”

13. “Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.”

Buddha Quotes on Love

14. “True love is born from understanding.”

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

16. “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”

17. “Just as a mother would protect her only child with her life, even so let one cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.”

18. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

19. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”

20. “Love is a gift of one’s innermost soul to another so both can be whole.”

Buddha Quotes on Anger & Hatred

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

22. “Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased.”

23. “Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth.”

24. “Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”

25. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

26. “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

27. “Some do not understand that we must die, but those who do realize this settle their quarrels.”

28. “They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.”

29. “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”

Buddha Quotes About Peace

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

31. “Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.”

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

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

34. “Indeed, the sage who’s fully quenched rests at ease in every way; no sense desire adheres to him whose fires have cooled, deprived of fuel. All attachments have been severed, the heart’s been led away from pain; tranquil, he rests with the utmost ease. The mind has found its way to peace.”

Buddha Quotes About Life

35. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.”

36. “Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”

37. “Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.”

38. “Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.”

39. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. “

40. “Just a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

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

42. “Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”

43. “Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won’t play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.”

44. “Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”

Buddha Quotes about Death

45. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

46. “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.”

47. “Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.”

48. “To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

Buddha Quotes for Happiness

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

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

51. “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”

52. “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”

53. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

54. “A man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness.” Buddha said, “First remove “I,” that’s Ego, then remove “want,” that’s Desire. See now, you are left with only Happiness.” – This is a famous but fake Buddha quote.

Buddha Quotes on Suffering

55. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

56. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

57. “Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.”

58. “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.”

59. “There are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.”

60. “Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death.”

Most Famous Buddha Quotes Real

61. “Give, even if you only have a little.”

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

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

64. “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

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

66. “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”

67. “When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”

68. “If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.”

69. “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.”

70. “Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.”

71. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

72. “Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”

73. “Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.”

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

75. “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”