“What goes around, comes around,” as we’ve all heard. We’ve all said it when we’ve been on the receiving end of a wrongdoing or poor conduct, hoping that karma would come back to hit our offender for their wrongdoing.
The Sanskrit term karma approximately translates to “action or deed.” Karma is a cause-and-effect theory that states that for every purposeful action or thought, whether good or negative, there is a reaction that will benefit or harm us at some time in the future. You will be rewarded with goodwill if you keep a cheerful mindset and spread compassion into the world. Similarly poor behavior generates negative energy, which manifests as bad karma.
Continue reading for a collection of inspiring karma quotes. These karma quotes will undoubtedly motivate you to follow a positive path and live your best life.
Supreme Karma Quotes
“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 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.”
Jessica Brody
“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
“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“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
“As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.”
Nina Hagen
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.”
Yannick Noah
“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
“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
Supreme Karma Quotes
“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“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
“Karma bides it’s time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.”
Benjamin Bayani
“Karma, simply put, is an action for an action, good or bad.”
Stephen Richards
“Karma has a surprising way of taking care of situations. All you have to do is to sit back and watch.”
Unknown
“No need for revenge. Just sit back and wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up themselves and if you’re lucky, God will let you watch.”
Unknown
“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
“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.”
Unknown
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
“If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive well.”
Russell Simmons
“According to the karma of past actions, one’s destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.”
Sri Guru Grant Sahib
“By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
David Mitchell
“Know well what hold you back, and what moves you forward.”
Gautama Buddha
“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.”
Jennifer Salaiz
“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.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.”
Ottilie Weber
Supreme Karma Quotes
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.”
Daniel Handler
“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
“Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”
Sakyong Mipham
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“If a householder moulds himself according to the circumstances just like nature moulds Herself according to seasons and performs his Karma then only shall he acquire happiness.”
Rig Veda
“Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I’m a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it’s bad or good.”
Sandra Bullock
“Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.”
Rick Springfield
“When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it’s because of karma, some past connection.”
Richard Gere
“People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acquire beautiful horses and elephants, and ornate carriages of many kinds. They think of nothing else, and they forget all their relatives. They ignore their Creator; without the Name, they are impure.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“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
“Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Supreme Karma Quotes
“Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?”
Jodi Picoult
“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
“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
“It is a rule of life that we eventually become victims of the evil we do to others.”
Wayne Gerard Trotman
“I do not believe in karma. However, I practice it everyday because it tricks me into being a better person!”
Clint Diffie
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