“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work.”
Bhagavad Gita
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100 Bhagavad Gita Quotes
A short introduction
The Bhagavad Gita is a conversation on a battlefield about how to act when every choice feels heavy. That is why people still open it before work, before grief, and before a decision they cannot undo.
This collection offers a hundred short passages in clear English, credited to the Gita. They speak about duty, the restless mind, evenness in success and failure, and work offered without clinging to the fruit.
This is not a substitute for reading the whole text with a teacher you trust. It is a doorway. If a verse pulls you, go find the chapter around it.
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Read with respect. The Gita is scripture for many people, and a philosophical companion for many others. Both kinds of readers are welcome here.
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100 quotes
“The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.”
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“For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.”
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“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.”
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“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time.”
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“The wise see that there is action in the midst of inaction and inaction in the midst of action.”
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“When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.”
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
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“There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.”
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“Be thou of even mind, in success and failure.”
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“The soul is neither born, nor does it die.”
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“Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.”
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“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.”
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“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath.”
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“Whatever you do, make it an offering to me.”
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“Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.”
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“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
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“The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.”
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“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.”
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“As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.”
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“Curving back within myself I create again and again.”
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“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered.”
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“Even if you were the most sinful of sinners, you could cross beyond all sin by the raft of spiritual wisdom.”
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“He who has let go of hatred, who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always unmoved by good or ill — that one is dear to me.”
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“I am the taste in water, the light of the sun and the moon.”
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“In this world there are two orders of being: the perishable, separate creature, and the changeless spirit.”
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“Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors that motivate action.”
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“Let a man lift himself by himself; let him not degrade himself. For the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self.”
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“Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.”
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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“One can become whatever one wants to be if one constantly contemplates on the object of desire.”
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“Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.”
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“Reshape yourself through the power of your will.”
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“The offered self sacrifice I am, and I am the given wealth.”
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“The senses are higher than the body, the mind higher than the senses; above the mind is the intellect, and above the intellect is the Atman.”
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“There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.”
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“Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation.”
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“To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.”
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“When a man dwells on the objects of sense, attachment to them is born. From attachment arises desire, from desire anger.”
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“Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth.”
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“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.”
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“A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; or draw himself down, in the same manner. Because each person is his own friend or enemy.”
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“As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all actions.”
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“Be even-tempered in success and failure, for such evenness of mind is what is meant by yoga.”
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“Both you and I have passed through many births. I know them all, you do not.”
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“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
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“For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, the mind will remain the greatest enemy.”
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“He who has no attachments can really love others, for his love is pure and divine.”
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“I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the sacred syllable Om in the Vedas, the sound in ether, and the ability in man.”
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“In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself.”
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“It is better to do one's own dharma, even imperfectly, than to do another's dharma perfectly.”
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“Knowledge is better than mere practice. Meditation is better than knowledge. Renunciation of the fruits of action is better still.”
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“Let the yogi try constantly to concentrate his mind on the Supreme Self.”
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“Neither in this world nor hereafter is there destruction for him who works for the good.”
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“No matter what you do, make it an offering to the divine.”
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“One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness.”
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“Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.”
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“Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness.”
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“The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.”
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“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned priest, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.”
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“The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.”
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“The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.”
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“There is a war that opens the doors of heaven. Happy are the warriors whose fate it is to fight such a war.”
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“Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
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“Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires.”
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“Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle — these are the duties of a kshatriya.”
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“Why do you worry unnecessarily? Whom do you fear? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born nor dies.”
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“You came empty handed, and you will leave empty handed.”
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“Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.”
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“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
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“Balanced in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, engage in battle. Doing so, you will not incur sin.”
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“Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation.”
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“Established in yoga, perform actions, having abandoned attachment, remaining the same in success and failure.”
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“He who sees Me in all things, and all things in Me, never becomes lost, nor does he lose Me.”
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“I am the gambling of cheats, and of the splendid I am the splendor. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.”
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“In the dark night of all beings awakes to Light the tranquil man. But what is day to other beings is night for the sage who sees.”
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“It is I who remain as a mere witness. I am never the doer.”
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“Karmanye vadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachana.”
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“Lift yourself by yourself; do not let yourself down. For you alone are your friend, you alone are your enemy.”
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“Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions. Nature does all this.”
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“Of the mind I am the brilliance. Of the brilliant I am the brilliance.”
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“One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.”
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“Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.”
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“Renounce all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone. I shall deliver you from all sin. Do not grieve.”
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“Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.”
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“The faith of each is in accordance with his nature, O Bharata.”
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“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.”
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“There is more joy in doing one's own work even poorly than in doing another man's work well.”
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“They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of I, me, and mine.”
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“This is true knowledge: to see the one changeless life in all the lives, and in the separate, the inseparable.”
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“To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.”
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“When you move amidst the world of sense, but your senses obey your will, and you are free from likes and dislikes, you live in peace.”
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“Work for work's sake, not for yourself. Act but do not be attached to your action.”
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“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become.”
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“A lamp in a windless place does not flicker. That is the image of the yogi who has tamed the mind.”
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“As the blazing fire turns wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns all actions to ashes.”
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“He who is the same to friend and foe, in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, pleasure and pain, who is free from attachment — that one is dear to me.”
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“In the night of all beings, the disciplined man is awake. Where others are awake, it is night for the sage.”
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“Change is the law of the universe.”
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“A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; or draw himself down, likewise.”
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They are short passages from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture. The lines here are popular English renderings, credited to the text, meant for reflection — not as a replacement for a full translation.