45 Inspiring Quotes about Karma

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Karma quotes

Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.

— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being


Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

— Michael Bassey Johnson


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

— Russell Simmons


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

— Vinoba Bhave


Wonderful things happen due to positive beliefs and good karma. Change your mind set to earn good karma and to make your life beautiful.

— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment


There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater than a man listening to himself! Since an intention precedes action, it should be the reference point for any action.

— Thiruman Archunan


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’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, The Last Lecture


Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don’t do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I’ll benefit from it.

— David Schwimmer


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

— Nina Hagen


Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.

— Sakyong Mipham


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


To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].

— Dada Bhagwan


Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.

— Avis J. Williams


Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.

— Dada Bhagwan


I don’t seek revenge because the karma bus always arrives on time.

— Fuad Alakbarov


Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.

— Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi


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


Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

— Mahavira


If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].

— Dada Bhagwan


No one can escape karma. Two events which may, at first, seem disconnected can be karmically connected. After all, karma works on a spiritual level which may manifest itself physically in a myriad of seemingly unrelated ways.

— Charbel Tadros


Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.

— Dada Bhagwan


God doesn’t need to be a witness. He doesn’t need to go to a court, does he? ‘You’ are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there’s no karma bondage. And ‘God’ only keeps on ‘seeing’!

— Dada Bhagwan


How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life


The one with karma is known as mortal (jiva) and the one without karma is known as Soul (Self

— immortal).


Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

— John Dolan, Everyone Burns


You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal


Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results in liberation (moksha).

— Dada Bhagwan


Living for the Self [the Soul] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but demerit karma (you bind demerit karma).

— Dada Bhagwan


You don’t have to believe in karma, (I didn’t). But you can bet your ass that karma will have been keeping an eye on you.

— Garry Crystal, Leaving London


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


The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others.

— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being


i wanted to be apart of the karma, that fed those whom have hurt me.. Than I realised, being apart of their karma is not a way to be free, so I let go with the belief;that, They chose the deed, & karma knows where their true intentions lead.

— Nikki Rowe


There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God’s forgiveness.

— Shannon L. Alder


Now don’t you understand man universal lawWhat you throw out comes back to you, starNever underestimate those who you scarCause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

— Lauryn Hill


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


From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption — but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

— Dalai Lama XIV


The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path.

— Pooja Ruprell


If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.

— Anthony Liccione


Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses.

— Dada Bhagwan


Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.

— Dada Bhagwan


It’s these small differences in people’s karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl


How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours.

— Wayne Dyer


One’s longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one’s karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

— Ramesh Menon, Bhagavata Purana


The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and kismat to deal with the irrationality of its sequence

— Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls


The wheel turns for all, caro Chase. It’s the karma effect, ” Giulia cried, aping Ilenia. She could have never imagined that her words would become prophetic so soon.

— Stefania Mattana, Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2,