Buddha Quotes

568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
quotes
52
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Perseverance
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.”
Deeds and Good Deeds
“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”
Change
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
Love
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
Self-esteem
“Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.”
Love
“Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.”
Vigilance
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Resentment
“You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.”
Spirit and Spirituality
“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
Evil
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Buddha; no source in their known works. · evidenceFamily
“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
Effort
“Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.”
Zeal
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
Anger
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
Hatred
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
Purpose
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Buddha; no source in their known works. · evidenceRewards
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
Health
“As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.”
Character
“We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.”
MisattributedListed as misattributed to Buddha; no source in their known works. · evidenceThoughts and Thinking
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.”
Wisdom
“Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
Hatred
“If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.”
Enjoyment
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
Mind
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
Endurance
“'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Peace
“Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.”
Hatred