Winning gives birth to hostility. Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Buddha
Karaniya Metta Sutta.

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

"As I am, so are others; as others are, so am I." Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.

Were there a mountain all made of gold,
doubled that would not be enough
to satisfy a single man:
know this and live accordingly.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

Knowing that the other person is angry, one who remains mindful and calm acts for his own best interest and for the other's interest, too.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

By doing evil, one defiles oneself; by avoiding evil, one purifies oneself. Purity and impurity depend upon oneself: no one can purify another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.

Even when obstacles crowd in, the path to Nibbana can be won by those who establish mindfulness and bring to perfection equipoise.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Buddha
Udana.

Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with e
Buddha
Dhammapada.

I have love for the footless, for the bipeds too I have love; I have love for those with four feet, for the many-footed I have love.
Buddha
Anguttara Nikaya.

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live as hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

Learn this from the waters: in mountain clefts and chasms, loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently.
Buddha
Sutta Nipata.

Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

The past should not be followed after and the future not desired; what is past is dead and gone and the future is yet to come.
Buddha
Majjhima Nikaya.

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
Buddha
Digha Nikaya.

"Impermanent are all compounded things." When one perceives this with true insight, then one becomes detached from suffering; this is the path of purification,
Buddha
Dhammapada.

Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

Just as in the autumn a farmer, ploughing with a large plough cuts through all the spreading rootlets as he ploughs; in the same way, bhikkhus, the perceiving of impermanence, developed and frequently practiced, removes all sensual passion…removes and abolishes all conceit of ‘I am’.
Buddha
Samyutta Nikaya.

The conquest of oneself is better than the conquest of all others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

By self alone is evil done, by self alone does one suffer.
By self alone is evil left undone, by self alone does one obtain Salvation.
Salvation and Perdition depend upon self; no man can save another.
Buddha
Dhammapada.

It is nature's law that rivers wind, trees grow wood, and, given the opportunity, women work iniquity.
Buddha
The Jataka.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha