153 Karma Quotes

Following is our list of karma quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about time and karma.

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Famous Karma Quotes

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. — Mary Browne

Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law. — Nina Hagen

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life. — Zhi Gang Sha

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned. — Marianne Williamson

One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' — Rama Swami

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. — Wayne Dyer

We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. — Samael Aun Weor

What goes around, comes around. — Willie Nelson

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it. — Sakyong Mipham

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go. — Boy George

The law of Karma is the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of. — Nina Hagen

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

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed. — Christmas Humphreys

Be yourself and enjoy yourself. Show me a smile and I'll show you one back. Karma: Believe in it. It's real. It comes back to you. — Vanilla Ice

Short Karma Quotes

  • You cannot fail unless you quit. — Abraham Lincoln
  • Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. — Dalai Lama
  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. — Wendy Mass
  • Realize that everything connects to everything else. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop. — Kurt Cobain
  • As you sow, so you shall reap. — English Proverbs
  • He who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself. — African Proverbs
  • To live without risk is to risk not living. — Pope Pius XII
  • Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you. — Wayne Dyer
  • Why bad things happen to good people — Harold S. Kushner

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Karma quote How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Believe In Karma Quotes

I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. — Chuck Lorre

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

Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won't have to chase your dreams, they will come to you. — Randy Pausch

Karma quote How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you. — Chris Pine

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma. — Courtney Love

what comes around goes around. — 50 Cent

Karma quote A little girl seeks revenge. A woman moves on whole karma does her dirty work.
A little girl seeks revenge. A woman moves on whole karma does her dirty work.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though. — Amy Winehouse

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue. — Dalai Lama

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let’s say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma. — Andy Dick

Time And Karma Quotes

The wolf carried a number of times and then was carried itself. — Polish Proverbs

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. — Ben Okri

I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now. — Lindsey Buckingham

We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy. — Frederick Lenz

Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time. — Anil Sinha

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good. — Russell Simmons

If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair. — Josephus

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally. — Deepak Chopra

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again. — William Butler Yeats

Krishna Karma Quotes

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill. — Frederick Lenz

The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. — Swami Vivekananda

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. — Frederick Lenz

Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you. — Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. — Frederick Lenz

This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. — Frederick Lenz

Bad Karma Quotes

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

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. — Eric Schmidt

If you do good, good things come to you. If you do bad, bad things come to you. — Thai Proverbs

Bad causes, bad result. — Japanese Proverbs

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in. — Ashly Lorenzana

What goes around comes back around. — Beyonce Knowles

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. — Confucius

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results. — Sakyong Mipham

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

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

Law Of Karma Quotes

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, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be. — Sharon Salzberg

The law of attraction says there are no limits and anything is possible. Your imagination has no limits, and anything is possible for you to imagine! Isn't it interesting that the law of attraction and your imagination say the same thing? Think about it. What's it telling you? — Rhonda Byrne

The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny. — Paramahansa Yogananda

What goes around comes back around again. — Grand Puba

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay. — G. I. Gurdjieff

It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way. — Samael Aun Weor

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction. — George Harrison

The natural laws of the universe are inviolable... what you say and do determines what happens in your life... You are the master of your life and death. What you do is what you are. — Lao Tzu

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain. — Frederick Lenz

We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us. — Sharon Gannon

I Believe In Karma Quotes

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest. — Randy Pausch

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. — F. Paul Wilson

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. — Imelda Staunton

I never believed in dharma. karma, reincarnation, or any of that spiritual crap, which caused sort of a problem growing up because my parents are devout Hindus. — Sonia Singh

Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings. — Jay Leno

I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it. — Scott Adams

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives. — Kyle MacLachlan

I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around. — Tim Gunn

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff. — Bjorn Lomborg

I don't believe in karma. — Sandra Bernhard

Karma Yoga Quotes

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same. — Vinoba Bhave

Yoga means we take responsibility for the tasks in our life. Whatever we are supposed to have karmically, life gives us. The question is: how do we handle it? — Frederick Lenz

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man. — Mahatma Gandhi

Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments. — Frederick Lenz

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind. — Frederick Lenz

Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga. — Swami Vivekananda

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity. — Frederick Lenz

There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun. — Frederick Lenz

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives. — Frederick Lenz

Negative Karma Quotes

It's impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you're grateful. If you're in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for. — Rhonda Byrne

On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be. — Will Oldham

Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma. — Dolores Cannon

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power. — Frederick Lenz

When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state. — Frederick Lenz

When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma. — Gary Zukav

You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be. — Neale Donald Walsch

Good Karma Quotes

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

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road. — Ed Helms

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people. — Wayne Dyer

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard. — Wayne Dyer

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. — Buddha

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good. — Heinrich Harrer

You cannot do a kindness too soon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire. — Robert James Waller

One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud. — Buddha

Love and kindness are never wasted. — Barbara De Angelis

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More Karma Quotes

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself. — Elvis Presley

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs

Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. — Swami Satchidananda

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you. — Randy Pausch

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 cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again. — Deepak Chopra

Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma. — Thubten Yeshe

Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them. — Edgar Cayce

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. — Sakyong Mipham

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't. — Thomas A. Edison

A wolf carried away its prey many a time, but was eventually carried away itself. — Polish Proverbs

Whatever you sow, you reap. — Filipino Proverbs

He who digs a pit for others falls in himself. — Polish Proverbs

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open. — Eugene O'Neill

He who digs pits for others will fall in them himself. — Polish Proverbs

Curses are like chickens; they come home to roost — Greek Proverbs

That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that offended you in the first place- so transcend your ego and stay in peace. — Wayne Dyer

The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle. — Frederick Lenz

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 in the end of the day. — Angie Stone

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in. — Jim Rohn

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