Gautama Buddha Inspiring Quotes

• The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Inspiring, Buddhist

• I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• There is no fire like passion
  No crime like hatred,
  No sorrow like separation,
  No sickness like hunger,
  And no joy like the joy of freedom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Buddhist, Giving

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Peace

• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Death

• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

• You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Inspiring, Deserve

• He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

• All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• After enlightenment, the laundry.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Enlightenment, Laundry

• What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

• Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Heaven

• The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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