Buddha quotes page 1

c. 563-486 BC, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you
if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be dilligent is a way of life.
Foolish people are idle, wise people are dilligent.
Buddha

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
Buddha

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.
Buddha

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of
these.
Buddha

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the
water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Buddha

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which
renew humanity.
Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.
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

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about
the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound
your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

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.
Buddha

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How
deeply did you let go?
Buddha

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

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Buddha

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

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

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.
Buddha

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through
strength, but through persistence.
Buddha

Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Buddha

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind;
delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.
Buddha

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless
it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of
beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky.
Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
Buddha

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and
fearless then he is in truth called wise.
Buddha

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