Category: Inspirational Quotes

“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men” Chapter 6 Verse 7

“Fools of little understanding have themselves for their greatest enemies, for they do evil deeds which must bear bitter fruits.” Chapter 5 Verse 66

“If a traveler does not meet with one who is better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.” Chapter 5 Verse 61

“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.”  Chapter 4 Verse 51 

“Not a mother, not a father will so much, nor any other relative; a well directed mind will do us greater service.”  Chapter 3 Verse 43

As a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a wise man makes straight his trembling and unsteady thought, which is difficult to guard, difficult to hold back.”  Chapter 3 Verse 33

“The virtuous man delights in this world, and he delights in the next; he delights in both. He delights and rejoices, when he sees the purity of his own work.” Chapter 1 Verse 16

“As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion for lust will not break through a well reflecting mind” Chapter 1 Verse 13

“His thought is quiet, quiet are his words and deeds.  When he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, he thus has become a quiet man.”  Buddha

“If with kindly generosity, one merely has the wish to sooth the aching heads of other beings, such merit knows no bounds.”  Shantideva