Karma Quotes
All karma quotes emphasize one thing: what you give will come back to you in time.
You give good, and good will come back to you. Some of the most intellectual minds have attributed life’s happenings to karma since time immemorial.
This collection features wise, funny, inspirational, and entertaining sayings from notables in different fields. You can share these sayings with people you love and care about so that they, too, can find the inspiration to do good deeds in their lives.
Best Karma Quotes
1.) How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer
2.) I saw that!
Karma
3.) Do good, and good will come to you.
Unknown
4.) Karma has no menu; you get what you deserve.
Unknown
5.) If you give a good thing to the world, then over time, your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.
Russel Simmons
5.) Is fate getting what you deserve, or deserving of what you get?
Jodi Picoult
6.) Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.
Sakyong Mipham
7.) According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Funny Karma Quotes
8.) No need for revenge. Just sit back and wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up themselves, and if you’re lucky, God will let you watch.
Unknown
9.) Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap. We reap what we sow! The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law.
Nina Hagen
10.) Karma moves in two directions.
Unknown
11.) I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We’re all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt at the end of the day.
Angie Stone
12.) Karma is like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face.
Unknown
13.) Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning!
Unknown
14.) I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for karma to hate me this much.
Katie McGarry
Karma Definition
“The sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence is viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.” (In Buddhism and Hinduism).
What Goes Around Comes Around Quotations
15.) What goes around comes back around.
Unknown
16.) You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.
Ericka Williams
17.) Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is the law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped the justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.
Anil Sinha
18.) Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create the experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.
Deepak Chopra
19.) I’m a believer in karma, and I’m also a believer that things happen for a reason.
Bill Goldberg
Revenge is Best Served Cold Sayings
20.) There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people who go out of their way to hurt others will end up broke and alone.
Sylvester Stallone
21.) Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can’t get away with screwing people over your whole life; I don’t care who you are. What goes around comes around. That’s how it works. Sooner or later, the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
Jessica Brody
22.) Karma bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.
Benjamin Bayani
23.) A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya
Inspirational Karma Quotes
24.) As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
Nina Hagen
25.) Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having a cappuccino and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
Deepak Chopra
26.) People pay for what they do and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.
Edith Wharton
27.) It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
Daisaku Ikeda
28.) Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time.
Dalai Lama
29.) Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
Steve Maraboli
Good Karma Quotes
30.) Once you’ve lived a little, you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you.
Slash
31.) I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.
Sandra Bullock
32.) If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
Sakyong Mipham
33.) Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives.
Haruki Murakami
34.) Nothing happens by chance, by fate. You create your own fate by your actions. That’s Karma.
Unknown
35.) Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.
Terry Mark
36.) Figure out what you’re good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant
37.) It is in the best interest of a man to become a Karma-Yogi and work to the best of his abilities and without bothering about the results.
Sam Veda
38.) Contrary to popular misconception, karma has nothing to do with punishment and reward. It exists as part of our holographic universe’s binary or dualistic operating system only to teach us responsibility for our creations-and all things we experience are our creations.
Sol Luckman
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Buddha Quotes on Karma
39.) Still, others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
Bodhidharma
40.) Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.
Unknown
41.) Things don’t just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don’t live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
42.) Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
Dalai Lama XIV
43.) What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, a hundred years later, a hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it’s our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is a sin in every religion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
44.) To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Bodhidharma
45.) If a householder molds himself according to the circumstances just like nature molds herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness.
Rig Veda
Meaningful Quotes on Karma
46.) There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will.
Kuna Yin
47.) The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.
The Bhagavad Gita
48.) When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold Kushner
49.) Remember to honor the hand which reached out for you when you needed it, by being that hand to someone else who is struggling.
Greg Dutilly
50.) Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.
Paramahansa Yogananda
51.) Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognizance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
Michael Bassey Johnson
52.) Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Short Karma Quotes
53.) Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo Da Vinci
54.) Karma is like boomerang, bad the karma bigger the force.
Naresh Soni
55.) Negative actions bring bad karma.
Unknown
56.) Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
57.) If you’re a really mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
Kurt Cobain
58.) As the heat of fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma.
Bhagavad Gita
59.) Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
60.) Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it’s just your turn.
Unknown
Karma Quotes About Life
61.) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
62.) A boomerang returns back to the person that throws it.
Vera Nazarian
63.) The bet revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius
64.) You must acknowledge and experience this part of the universe. Karma is intricate, too vast. You would, with your limited human senses, consider it too unfair. But you have tools to really, truly love. Loving the children is very important. But love everyone as you would love your children.
Kuan Yin
65.) Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others.
M.R. Mathias
Wise Karma Quotes
66.) Even chance meetings are the result of karma. Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.
Haruki Murakami
67.) When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.
Richard Gere
68.) When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It’s safe. Let go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
69.) I do not believe in karma. However, I practice it every day because it tricks me into being a better person.
Clint Diffie
Insightful Karma Quotes
70.) The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.
Drishti Bablani
71.) You cannot escape the consequences of your actions.
Unknown
72.) Every thought, every word, every action, has a ripple effect.
Unknown
73.) Life is a mirror. What you see in others, you see in yourself.
Unknown
74.) Be kind, for everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Unknown
75.) The universe is just.
Unknown
I hope you enjoyed this collection of karma quotes.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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