The Buddha Quotes
Browse 35 quotes from The Buddha, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.”
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed...”
“Drop by drop is the water pot filled.”
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
“What you are is what you have been. Who you will be is what you do now.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We alone must walk the path.”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear.”
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.”
“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.”
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.”
