Here’s a collection of the best karma quotes that capture the universe’s way of keeping tabs on our actions, good or bad.
I gathered them from diverse sources on the web. Let’s see how they point out this whole cause-and-effect thing!
Top 10 Karma Quotes
1. “We find total peace when we accept that, due to our karma, we deserve the good and the bad that is happening in our lives.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
2. “Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
3. “Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck…” — Rohit Shetty
4. “Hate begets hate… and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.” — Tanushree Dutta
5. “We are accountable to everything we do. What goes around comes around.” ― Avijeet Das
6. “Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things; you get the wrong things out of it.” — Antonio Brown
7. “Forgive and move on. Focus on your happiness. Karma will take care of things.” — Kirsten Hill
8. “Karma bides its time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.” — Benjamin Bayani
9. “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
10. “I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick, or child out there. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us at the end of the day.” — Angie Stone
See also: 80 What Goes Around Comes Around Quotes For Inspiration
Inspiring Quotes About Karma
1. “If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you’ll receive good.” — Russell Simmons
2. “You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.” — Ericka Williams
3. “I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.” — Megan Fox
4. “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
5. “Your good karma is the key to survival! The brownie points you earn at least expected times is actually you coming face to face with the circle of life!” ― Somya Kedia
6. “Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad Karma where it is due.” ― M.R. Mathias
7. “Treat other people’s home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.” — Ana Monnar
8. “Every moment of your life, you perform an action — physically, mentally, emotionally, and energy-wise. Each action creates a certain memory. That is karma.” — Sadhguru
9. “Learn to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo da Vinci
10. “Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time.” — Dalai Lama
11. “Within the realms of what goes around, resides the magnitude and severity of what comes around.” ― Sandeep N. Tripathi
12. “Love your neighbor, even the ones who do not show you the same courtesy. You can’t expect to receive love if you’re selective and not really willing to give it. What you put into the world, you will indeed get back, even if it’s not from the person you’re expecting it to be.” ― Alexandra Elle
13. “Some day people will ask me what is the key to my success… and I will simply say, “good Karma.” ― K. Crumley
14. “The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.” ― Homer
15. “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
16. “Though she has always the words to kill and the strength to hit back, she chooses to let karma does its thing. And sooner or later karma will show those who did her wrong and drew obstacles among her path how damn hell looks like…” ― Samiha Totanji
17. “Karma is like a boomerang. I hope you have many happy returns.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
18. “I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.” — Yannick Noah
19. “Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.” ― Dalai Lama
20. “What goes around comes around, so keep the circle positive, peaceful, and loving.” — Unknown
Karma Quotes About Life
1. “When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life.” — Keanu Reeves
2. “Karma is like a rubber band. You can only stretch it so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face.” — Unknown
3. “Revenge will never solve anything. Karma will.” — Unknown
4. “Karma has no menu; you get served what you deserve.” — Unknown
5. “Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
6. “Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.” — Elbert Hubbard
7. “Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.” — Sakyong Mipham
8. “People who create their own drama, deserve their own Karma.” — Unknown
9. “Nobody deserves misery but sometimes it’s just your turn.” — Unknown
10. “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
11. “Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.” ― Ashly Lorenzana
12. “As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.” ― Nina Hagen
13. “Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician’s karmic calamity.” ― T.F. Hodge
14. “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.” ― H. Raven Rose
15. “If karma doesn’t catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.” ― Anthony Liccione
16. “People seldom appreciate the pain they’ve caused until that pain is visited upon them. This is not vengeance. It is education.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
17. “Anger has no soul. But karma… that’s a whole different story.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
18. “What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.” — Lil Wayne
19. “Karma is a grim teacher.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
20. “Figure out what you’re good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.” — Naval Ravikant
Wise Quotes On Karma
1. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” — Wayne Dyer
2. “A boomerang returns back to the person that throws it.” — Vera Nazarian
3. “Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognizance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
4. “Not only is there often a right and wrong but what goes around does come around. Karma exists.” — Donald Van de Mark
5. “Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.” ― Simon Armitage
6. “The meaning of karma is in the intention. The intention behind action is what matters.” — The Bhagavad Gita
7. “I heard that karma is vengeful and is also a light sleeper.” — Rudy Francisco
8. “Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around.” — Jim Butcher
9. “You have to be careful when involving yourself with someone else’s karma.” — Brownell Landrum
10. “Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original.” ― Slash
11. “You made your own bed, and now curse others for putting you there.” ― Wesley Chu
12. “If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you’d rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.” ― Alexandra Katehakis
13. “Karma is a cruel mistress.” ― Kelley York
14. “In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.” ― Epictetus
15. “If you don’t believe in Karma or reincarnation, don’t worry. Probably you will in your next life.” ― Bruce Goldberg
16. “You reap what you sow: life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” — Grant M. Bright
17. “Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
18. “We have to be nice to ourselves and others in order for life to run smoothly. This is just how it goes: a fun little game of the universe we like to sometimes call karma.” — Tara Stiles
19. “What goes around comes around, are simple words but powerful. Do bad, it will hit you ten times worse; do good, it will come back a hundred times better.” — Unknown
20. “Things don’t just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don’t live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.” — Sharon Salzberg
Funny Karma Quotes
1. “Dear Karma, I have a list of people you missed.” — Unknown
2. “Karma is when you throw a banana in Mario Kart, and you end up slipping on it.” — Unknown
3. “If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” ― Kurt Cobain
4. “I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for karma to hate me this much.” — Katie McGarry
5. “I hope Karma slaps you in the face before I do.” — Unknown
6. “Okay, Karma. You made your point.” ― Frank Sonnenberg
7. “It is called Karma and it is pronounced HA-HA-HA-HA!“ — Unknown
8. “Karma is just sharpening her nails and finishing her drinks. She says she will be with you shortly.” — Unknown
9. “Karma has a new phone and she’s got your number on it.” — Unknown
10. “I believe in fate. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it.” — Unknown
Final Word
I hope these karma quotes reminded you how our actions shape the story of our lives and how all that goes around comes around.
So keep it good, and watch the good come back to you!
