Buddha Quotes

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

~ Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

~ Buddha

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.

~ Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

~ Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

~ Buddha

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

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

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.

~ Buddha

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

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

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

~ Buddha

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

~ Buddha

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

~ Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

~ Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

~ Buddha

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

~ Buddha

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

~ Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

~ Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

~ Buddha

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

~ Buddha

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

~ Buddha