Karma is a powerful thing. What goes around, comes around, as the saying goes. That’s why it’s important to live your life in a way that will bring good karma your way. Here are more than 200 quotes about karma to help you live a better life!
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Short Karma Quotes
- “What begoes around becomes around.” – John Alejandro King
- “Good things could happen to not so bad people.” – Mike Gayle
- “Men are not punished for their sins but by them.” — Kin Hubbard
- “People in elastic houses shouldn’t throw stones.” – Kevin Ansbro
- “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” – Allan Lokos
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” — Elbert Hubbard
- “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
- “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The mind is everything. What you think, you become” – Gautama Buddha
- “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” – Buddha
- “My strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.” – Colin Farrell
- “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” — Buddha
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.” — Vera Nazarian
- “Karma: getting what you deserve and deserving what you get.” — Unknown
- “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.” – Vera Nazarian
- “The more love you give away, the more love you will receive.” — Unknown
- “You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course.” – Cocoy McCoy
- “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” —Leonardo da Vinci
- “Sometimes you get the karma. Sometimes you are the karma.” — Amie Kissel
- “By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” – David Mitchell
- “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Individuals create themselves through their moral choices.” – Damien Keown
- “Karma has no problem getting back in touch with you when need be.” — Unknown
- “Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?” – Jodi Picoult
- “Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.” – Criss Jami
- “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne W. Dyer
- “The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.” — Unknown
- “Karma is extremely efficient if one is extremely patient.” ―Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “One never escapes karma every action is stored subconsciously.” ― Deeksha Arora
- ”For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Sir Isaac Newton.
- “Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.” ― Sakyong Mipham
- “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.” – Sakyong Mipham
- “If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.” ― Anthony Liccione
- “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
- “Is it stupid to get sad for being treated the way we treat others?” – Sarvesh Jain
- “He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “History is like Karma; it keeps repeating unless we learn from it” – Daniyal Khurshid
- “What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what’s coming around.” – Jim Butcher
Quotes About Karma
- “Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.” — Rick Springfield
- “What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”- Kurt Cobain
- “Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others.” – M.R. Mathias
- “If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” — Kurt Cobain
- “I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.” — Sandra Bullock
- “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.” – Katie McGarry
- “Be ignorant. Or educate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – DON SANTO
- “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James
- “Karma can be seen as a curse or a gift because it keeps us attached to this world.” – Abdullah Fort
- “Everything happens for a reason? No. Everything happens and we’re the reason.”– Karl Kristian Flores
- “Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.” – Daisaku Ikeda
- “The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.” ― Drishti Bablani
- “The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.” ― Drishti Bablani
- “Don’t waste time on revenge. The people who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.” – Unknown
- “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
- “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, The 11 Karmic Spaces
- “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I’m a very firm believer in karma and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.” — Al Jourgensen
- “Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles.” – Dalai Lama XIV
- “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.” — Raven Rose, Shadow Selves
- “The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.” — The Bhagavad Gita
- “I don’t have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.” – Vanilla Ice
- “I’m a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.” – Al Jourgensen
- “If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?” — Alexandra Katehakis
- “Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.” — Deepak Chopra
- “Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.” ― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
- “No matter what kind of karma you gathered in the past, this moment’s karma is always in your hands.” – Sadhguru
- “Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.” – Garon Whited
- “Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.” — Unknown
- “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” — Keanu Reeves
- “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” – Keanu Reeves
- “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists” – Donald Van De Mark
- “Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time.” — Dalai Lama
- “Karma is like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face.” — Unknown
- “You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.” — Ericka Williams
- “Karma bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.” — Benjamin Bayani
- “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.” — Russell Simmons
- “I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that’s all you’re going to get back.” — Kesha
- “Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.” ― Garon Whited, Knightfall
- “I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that’s all you’re going to get back.” – Kesha
- “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.” – Ashly Lorenzana
- “Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.” — Rohit Shetty
- “I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.” — Yannick Noah
- “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
- “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.” — Richard Gere
- “Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.” ―Girdhar Joshi
- “Often when someone hurts you, they aren’t hurting you because you are you. They are hurting you because they are them.” — Karen Salmansohn
- “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
- “If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.” ― Hrishikesh Agnihotri
- “Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.” – Vera Nazarian
- “Remember the unkindness, dishonesty, and deception you display toward others… don’t be shocked when it comes back to bite you.” — Sarah Moore
- “Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap.” —Zig Ziglar, Better Than Good: Creating A Life You Can’t Wait to Live
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
- “You reap what you sow: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” — Grant M. Bright.
- “Some call it fate, some call it luck, some call it accident, some call it coincidence, some call it an answer to prayers, I call it karma.” – Rupa Mahanti
- “But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.” ― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
- “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.” – H. Raven Rose
- “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
- “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.” — James Baldwin
- “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.” – James Baldwin
- “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
- “Every moment of your life, you perform an action—physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma.” — Sadhguru
- “Karma is a tricky thing. To serve karma, one must repay good karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad karma where it is due.” ― R. Mathias
- “Every act is done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil.” — Nishan Panwar
- “Each individual is solely responsible for his or her own actions, and every action will produce a reaction equal in every way to the suit of the action.” — Stephen Arroyo
- “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.” — Kuan Yin
- “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
- “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
- “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “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
- “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
- “There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.” — Peyton Conway March
- “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
- “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, Kafka on the Shore
- “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, The Tomb
- “People who think they are smart. Who play other people or who rob, fraud ,cheats, scam or swindle other people. Life rob, fraud ,cheats, scam or swindle them their success and happiness.” – De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.” ― Epictetus
- “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we all have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn’t predestine anything. We create our own causes and Karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.” — Mary T. Browne
- “Someone once told me that time was a predator thatstalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived…After all, number one, we’re only mortal.” – Captain Jean Luc Picard
- “Someone once told me that time was a predator thatstalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived…After all, number one, we’re only mortal.” – Captain Jean Luc Picard
Karma Quotes About Cheating
- “When you do something bad: it comes back to you later.”
- “Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. – Buddha
- “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it’s just your turn.”- Author Unknown
- “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.”- Sakyong Mipham
- “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
- “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.”
- “Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.”- Terry Mark
- “Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.”- Rick Springfield
- “As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- “Nothing happens by chance, by fate. You create your own fate by your actions. That’s Karma.”
- “I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.”- Sandra Bullock
- “Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.” – Daisaku Ikeda
- “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
- “Don’t waste time on revenge. The people who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.”- Author Unknown
- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
- “Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.” – Author Unknown
- “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive well.”- Russell Simmons
- “Karma bides it’s time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.”- Benjamin Bayani
- “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.”- Russell Simmons
- “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.”
- “According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.” – Sri Guru Grant Sahib
- “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.” – Richard Gere
- “It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
- “Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.”- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- “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
- “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
- “Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality’s soil.”
- “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”- Thích Nhất Hạnh
- “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”- Tryon Edwards
- “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.”
- “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”- Albert Schweitzer
- “Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.” – Saying Lipham
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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.”
- “The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”- Frederick Buechner
- “Whatever you give to life, it gives you back. Do not hate anybody. The hatred which comes out from you will someday come back to you. Love others. And love will come back to you.”- Author Unknown
- “Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”
- “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
- “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.”
- “I was in the biggest breakdown of my life when I stopped crying long enough to let the words of my epiphany really sink in. That whore, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just bitch-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.”
- “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
- “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.”- Bohidharma
- “If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.”
- “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
Wrapping Up
Karma is a powerful force. It can be used for good or bad, but ultimately it’s up to you how you use it. These karma quotes should help give you some insight into this age-old concept and how you can use it to improve your life.
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