Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit: सिद्धार्थ गौतम Siddhāṛtha Gautama, c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE) or Siddhattha Gotama (शिद्धत्थ गोतम) in Pali, also called the Gautama Buddha, the Shakyamuni (i.e. “Sage of the Shakyas”) Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk (śramaṇa), mendicant, sage, philosopher, teacher and religious leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.
Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement common in his region. He later taught throughout other regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.
Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. Accounts of his life, discourses and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarised after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.
Top Buddha Quotes
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” — Buddha
“If you find someone with Wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.” — Buddha
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending.. Make peace with that and all will be well.” — Buddha
“To be a mother is sweet, and a father. It is sweet to live arduously and to master yourself.” — Buddha
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” — Buddha
“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.” — Buddha Quotes
“There is the taking on of a practice that is pleasant in the present and yields pleasure in the future.” — Buddha
“He has the most who is most content with the least.” — Buddha
“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” — Buddha
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” — Buddha
Top 10 Buddha Quotes on Life
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.” — Buddha
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” — Buddha
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” — Buddha
“By this path the past, present and future Bodhisattvas have been saved, are being saved, and will be saved.” — Buddha
“Everyday is a new day! “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha
“Satisfied covering the body with robes and feeding the belly with morsels I went with all my belongings wherever I went.” — Buddha
“There are these five clinging-aggregates: form, feeling, perception, impulses, and consciousness.” — Buddha
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” — Buddha
“Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.” — Buddha
“The five skandhas are the holding mass of matter, feelings, perceptions, impulses and the holding mass of consciousness.” — Buddha
15 Most powerful Buddha quotes
“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.” — Buddha
“The Buddha dissuades beings from the notion of a self, and then through emptiness liberates them from samsara.” — Buddha
“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” — Buddha
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.” — Buddha
“Pain is certain, suffering is optional.” — Buddha
“You are like the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you?” — Buddha
“Though you may read many sutras and speak about them to others, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?” — Buddha
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” — Buddha
“You can surely not assume that the real essence of form has actually been apprehended.” — Buddha
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” — Buddha
Top 10 Buddha Quote on Meditation
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” — Buddha
“It is in the nature of things that a dispassionate person realizes the knowledge and vision of release.” — Buddha
“Give, even if you only have a little.” — Buddha
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.” — Buddha
“Follow the awakened and from among the blind the light of your wisdom will shine out, purely.” — Buddha
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” — Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. Buddha
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” — Buddha
“It is in the nature of things that a person whose mind is concentrated knows and sees things as they actually are.” — Buddha
“Without faith there is no approaching; therefore faith is of much help for approaching the Dharma.” — Buddha
Top 20 Buddha Quotes on Happiness
“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.” — Buddha
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Buddha
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” — Buddha
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” — 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
Top Buddha Quote on Health
“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
“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
“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
“In a controversy the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.” — Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” — Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, but concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha
Top Buddha Quotes on Peace
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
“In the end, only three things matter: How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” — Buddha
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” — Buddha
“Love yourself and watch today, tomorrow … always. First, establish yourself in the way, then teach — and so defeat sorrow.” — Buddha
Top Buddha Quotes on Love
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” — Buddha
“The world always finds a way to praise and a way to blame. It always has and it always will.” — Buddha
“The bodhisattva, having stood in the perfection of meditation, does not apprehend form or any of the other skandhas.” — Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” — Buddha
“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” — Buddha
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Buddha
“If you have a person, you have something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” — Buddha
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” — Buddha
“Don’t blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity & peace. That is the path for you to follow.” — Buddha
“The thought does not occur to a monk that ‘I am about to attain the cessation of perception and feeling.” — Buddha
Top Buddha Quotes Thought
“There is the taking on of a practice that is painful in the present but yields pleasure in the future.” — Buddha
“Go beyond this way or that way, to the farthest shore where the world dissolves and everything becomes clear.” — Buddha
“Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless. Be blameless. Awake to the Dharma and from all sorrow free yourself.” — Buddha
Real Buddha Quotes
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” — Buddha
“With the purified divine eye, surpassing that of men, a Buddha sees beings as they pass hence or come to be.” — Buddha
“The mind released through wisdom here and now; knowing and realizing, one with the destruction of desires is a recluse.” — Buddha
Top Buddha Quotes and Sayings
“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
“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.” — Buddha
“Everything arises and passes away. When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.” — Buddha
Top Spiritual Quotes Of Buddha
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” — Buddha
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha
buddha inspirational quotes
“Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.” ― Gautama Buddha
“To keep the body in good health. is a duty.” — Buddha Quotes
“Go beyond likes and dislikes, passion and desire, sensuousness and lust, grief and fear, free yourself from attachment.” — Gautama Buddha
“There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.” — Gautama Buddha
Buddha Quotes Of Happiness
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” — Gautama Buddha
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, a loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” — Gautama Buddha
“It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.” — Buddha
“As dust thrown against the wind, mischief is blown back in the face of the fool who wrongs the pure and harmless.” — Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” — Buddha
“A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.” — Buddha