• By Kashish Rai
  • Wed, 22 May 2024 12:20 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Every year on the first full moon of the Hindu calendar month of Vaishakha, people celebrate Buddha Purnima, also known as Buddha Jayanti or Vesak. Since this is the anniversary of Lord Gautam Buddha's birth, it has particular importance. This year, Buddha Purnima will be celebrated on 23rd May 2024. 

According to legend, Gautama Buddha attained liberation from the cycle of birth and reincarnation and took on the duties of a devout monk, philosopher, spiritual guide, and religious leader. He is revered in Hinduism as the ninth avatar of Vishnu, signifying rebirth.

Let us check out some motivational quotes by Gautam Buddha for peace, self-realisation and victory. 

Buddha Purnima 2024: 11 Motivational Quotes By Gautam Buddha 

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

2. "Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good."

3. "Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good."

4. "Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone." 

5. "Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal." 

6. "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." 

7. "If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?" 

The appearance day of Lord Buddha is known as Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti. (Image Source: Canva)

8. "The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realised the nature of the world." 

9. "They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed."

10.  "If with a pure mind, a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow." 

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11. "Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened."