Buddha on Fear Quotes

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

"If you find no companion to walk with, walk on alone, like an elephant roaming the forest. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress."

"Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things."

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) edited by Larry Chang, p. 193"

"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path."

"Live as islands unto yourselves, being your own refuge, with no one else as your refuge."

"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others."

"From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear. For him who is free from craving, there is no sorrow; whence should fear come?"

"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world—above, below, and across—unhindered, without ill will, without enmity."

"Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes."

"Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer badness with goodness. Conquer meanness with generosity. Conquer dishonesty with truth."

"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."

"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame."

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what help will they do you if you do not act on them?"

"Let us live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled. Let us live in joy, without fear, among those who are afraid."

"The root of suffering is attachment."

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts."

"Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser by generosity. Conquer the liar by truth."

"For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahāmati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh."

"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."

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

"The one who is free from craving and attachment is free from fear."

"One is not wise because one talks and talks; therefore, one who is peaceable, friendly and fearless is called wise."

"A jug fills drop by drop."

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

"Whatever a foe may do to a foe, or a hater to a hater, a wrongly-directed mind will do us greater evil."

"A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated — this is the greatest blessing."

"There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind."

"There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires."

"Fear does not exist in the one who is awake."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."