Buddha Quotes

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.