183+ Karma Quotes to Help You Live a Better Life

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

1. “What begoes around becomes around.” – John Alejandro King
2. “Good things could happen to not so bad people.” – Mike Gayle
3. “Men are not punished for their sins but by them.” — Kin Hubbard
4. “People in elastic houses shouldn’t throw stones.” – Kevin Ansbro
5. “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” – Allan Lokos
6. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” — Elbert Hubbard
8. “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
9. “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” – Elbert Hubbard
10. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become” – Gautama Buddha
11. “If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.” – Buddha
12. “My strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.” – Colin Farrell
13. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Gustav Jung
14. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” — Buddha
15. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
16. “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.” — Vera Nazarian
17. “Karma: getting what you deserve and deserving what you get.” — Unknown
18. “A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.” – Vera Nazarian
19. “The more love you give away, the more love you will receive.” — Unknown
20. “You win some, you lose some, let Karma takes its course.” – Cocoy McCoy
21. “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” —Leonardo da Vinci
22. “Sometimes you get the karma. Sometimes you are the karma.” — Amie Kissel
23. “By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” – David Mitchell
24. “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci
25. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
26. “Individuals create themselves through their moral choices.” – Damien Keown
27. “Karma has no problem getting back in touch with you when need be.” — Unknown
28. “Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?” – Jodi Picoult
29. “Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.” – Criss Jami
30. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne W. Dyer
31. “The ones you judge today may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.” — Unknown
32. “Karma is extremely efficient if one is extremely patient.” ―Efrat Cybulkiewicz
33. “One never escapes karma every action is stored subconsciously.” ― Deeksha Arora
34. ”For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Sir Isaac Newton.
35. “Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
36. “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.” ― Sakyong Mipham
37. “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.” – Sakyong Mipham
38. “If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.” ― Anthony Liccione
39. “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
40. “Is it stupid to get sad for being treated the way we treat others?” – Sarvesh Jain
41. “He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.” – Benjamin Franklin
42. “History is like Karma; it keeps repeating unless we learn from it” – Daniyal Khurshid
43. “What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what’s coming around.” – Jim Butcher

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Quotes About Karma

1. “Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.” — Rick Springfield
2. “What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
3. “If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”- Kurt Cobain
4. “Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others.” – M.R. Mathias
5. “If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” — Kurt Cobain
6. “I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.” — Sandra Bullock
7. “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.” – Katie McGarry
8. “Be ignorant. Or educate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – DON SANTO
9. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James
10. “Karma can be seen as a curse or a gift because it keeps us attached to this world.” – Abdullah Fort
11. “Everything happens for a reason? No. Everything happens and we’re the reason.”– Karl Kristian Flores
12. “Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.” – Daisaku Ikeda
13. “The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it.” ― Drishti Bablani
14. “The universe does not carry debts, it always returns back to you what you gave it.” ― Drishti Bablani
15. “Don’t waste time on revenge. The people who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.” – Unknown
16. “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
17. “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” – Edwin Hubbell Chapin
18. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.” — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, The 11 Karmic Spaces
20. “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
21. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. “I’m a very firm believer in karma and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.” — Al Jourgensen
23. “Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles.” – Dalai Lama XIV
24. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later.” — Raven Rose, Shadow Selves
26. “The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.” — The Bhagavad Gita
27. “I don’t have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.” – Vanilla Ice
28. “I’m a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots.” – Al Jourgensen
29. “If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?” — Alexandra Katehakis
30. “Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.” — Deepak Chopra
31. “Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.” ― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
32. “No matter what kind of karma you gathered in the past, this moment’s karma is always in your hands.” – Sadhguru
33. “Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.” – Garon Whited
34. “Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.” — Unknown
35. “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” — Keanu Reeves
36. “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” – Keanu Reeves
37. “Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists” – Donald Van De Mark
38. “Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time.” — Dalai Lama
39. “Karma is like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face.” — Unknown
40. “You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.” — Ericka Williams
41. “Karma bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.” — Benjamin Bayani
42. “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.” — Russell Simmons
43. “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
44. “Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.” ― Garon Whited, Knightfall
45. “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
46. “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.” – Ashly Lorenzana
47. “Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.” — Rohit Shetty
48. “I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.” — Yannick Noah
49. “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
50. “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.” — Richard Gere
51. “Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
52. “Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.” ―Girdhar Joshi
53. “Often when someone hurts you, they aren’t hurting you because you are you. They are hurting you because they are them.” — Karen Salmansohn
54. “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
55. “If you give your best to someone it will most definitely come back to you, often from a different person altogether.” ― Hrishikesh Agnihotri
56. “Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.” – Vera Nazarian
57. “Remember the unkindness, dishonesty, and deception you display toward others… don’t be shocked when it comes back to bite you.” — Sarah Moore
58. “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
59. “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
60. “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
61. “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
62. “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
63. “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.
64. “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
65. “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
66. “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
67. “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
68. “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
69. “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
70. “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
71. “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 **** or the Supreme abode.” — Chanakya
72. “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
73. “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
74. “Every act is done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; **** with ****.” — Nishan Panwar
75. “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
76. “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
77. “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
78. “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
79. “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
80. “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
81. “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
82. “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
83. “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
84. “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
85. “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
86. “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
87. “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
88. “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
89. “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
90. “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
91. “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

1. “When you do something bad: it comes back to you later.”
2. “Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
3. “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. – Buddha
4. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” – Wayne Dyer
5. “Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it’s just your turn.”- Author Unknown
6. “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.”- Sakyong Mipham
7. “Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
8. “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.”
9. “Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you.”- Terry Mark
10. “Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.”- Rick Springfield
11. “As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
12. “Nothing happens by chance, by fate. You create your own fate by your actions. That’s Karma.”
13. “I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.”- Sandra Bullock
14. “Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.” – Daisaku Ikeda
15. “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.”
16. “Don’t waste time on revenge. The people who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.”- Author Unknown
17. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
18. “Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.” – Author Unknown
19. “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive well.”- Russell Simmons
20. “Karma bides it’s time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.”- Benjamin Bayani
21. “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.”- Russell Simmons
22. “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.”
23. “According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.” – Sri Guru Grant Sahib
24. “When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.” – Richard Gere
25. “It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
26. “Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.”- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
27. “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
28. “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
29. “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.”
30. “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
31. “Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.”- Tryon Edwards
32. “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.”
33. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”- Albert Schweitzer
34. “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
35. “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
36. “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
37. “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
38. “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
39. “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
40. “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.”
41. “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
42. “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
43. “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.”
44. “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
45. “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.”
46. “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 *****, karma, had finally made her way around, and had just *****-slapped me right across the face. The realization only made me cry harder.”
47. “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
48. “Still others commit all sorts of **** deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing **** isn’t wrong. Such persons fall into a **** of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”- Bohidharma
49. “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.”
50. “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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