Bhagavad Gita quotes by Lord Krishna will inspire you in life. Krishna shared so much deep knowledge in the Bhagavad Gita to lead a balanced peaceful life.

But even if you read some quotes of the Bhagavad Gita you can feel positivity in your thoughts and life.

Let’s see some amazing Bhagavad Gita quotes here.

Bhagavad Gita Quotes

89 Bhagavad Gita Quotes – on Karma

Karma Bhagavad Gita Quotes are very powerful and help you to stay motivated in life at your work.

1. Perform your obligatory duty, because an action is indeed better than inaction. -The Bhagavad Gita

2. No one becomes a Karma-yogi who has not renounced the selfish motive behind an action. -The Bhagavad Gita

3. The food preferred by all is also of three types. So are the sacrifice, austerity, and charity. -The Bhagavad Gita

4. Free from desires, mind and senses under control, renouncing all proprietorship, doing a mere bodily action, one does not incur sin (or Karmic reaction). -The Bhagavad Gita

5. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. -The Bhagavad Gita

6. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is perfect evenness of mind. -The Bhagavad Gita

7. Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by a desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. -The Bhagavad Gita

8. When consciousness is unified, however, all vain anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill. -The Bhagavad Gita

9. Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery. -The Bhagavad Gita

10. Those established in Self-realization control their senses instead of letting their senses control them. -The Bhagavad Gita

11. Left to itself, the mind goes on repeating the same old habitual patterns of personality. By training the mind, however, anyone can learn to step in and change old ways of thinking; that is the central principle of yoga. -The Bhagavad Gita

12. Without ego-involvement and without getting entangled in whether things work out the way we want; only then will we not fall into the terrible net of karma. We cannot hope to escape karma by refraining from our duties: even to survive in the world, we must act. -The Bhagavad Gita

13. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard. -The Bhagavad Gita

14. Be aware of me always, adore me, make every act an offering to me, and you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me. -The Bhagavad Gita

15. death is no more traumatic than taking off an old coat. -The Bhagavad Gita

16. Thus the Gita places human destiny entirely in human hands. Its world is not deterministic, but neither is it an expression of blind chance: we shape ourselves and our world by what we believe and think and act on, whether for good or for ill. -The Bhagavad Gita

17. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. -The Bhagavad Gita

18. A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return. -The Bhagavad Gita

19. The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar – this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one’s own mind. -The Bhagavad Gita

20. No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. -The Bhagavad Gita

21. Everything we do produces karma in the mind. In fact, it is in the mind rather than the world that karma’s seeds are planted. -The Bhagavad Gita

22. Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion. -The Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita Quotes – On Life

Happy life needs a positive mindset full of faith. Bhagavad Gita Quotes about life help you to understand life deeply.

23. This pleasure, which appears as poison in the beginning but is like nectar in the end, comes by the grace of Self-knowledge. -The Bhagavad Gita

24. My illusion is dispelled by Your profound words, that You spoke out of compassion towards me, about the supreme secret of the Self. -The Bhagavad Gita

25. 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. -The Bhagavad Gita

26. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. -The Bhagavad Gita

27. Curving back within myself I create again and again. -The Bhagavad Gita

28. The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. -The Bhagavad Gita

29. Hell has three gates: lust, anger and greed. -The Bhagavad Gita

30. Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. -The Bhagavad Gita

31. The man who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to him. -The Bhagavad Gita

32. He who is rooted in oneness realizes that I am in every being; wherever he goes, he remains in me. When he sees all being as equal in suffering or in joy because they are like himself, that man has grown perfect in yoga. -The Bhagavad Gita

33. I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds. -The Bhagavad Gita

34. The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. -The Bhagavad Gita

35. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. -The Bhagavad Gita

36. For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters. -The Bhagavad Gita

37. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. -The Bhagavad Gita

38. He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, and He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone’s heart. -The Bhagavad Gita

39. We behold what we are, and we are what we behold. -The Bhagavad Gita

40. The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable. -The Bhagavad Gita

41. I enter into each planet, and by My energy, they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables. -The Bhagavad Gita

42. I am the destroyer of the world, who has come to annihilate everyone. Even without your taking part all those arrayed in the (two) opposing ranks will be slain! -The Bhagavad Gita

43. Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them. -The Bhagavad Gita

44. It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says “I did it”. -The Bhagavad Gita

45. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality. -The Bhagavad Gita

46. Performing the duty prescribed by (one’s own) nature, one incurreth no sin. -The Bhagavad Gita

47. I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings. -The Bhagavad Gita

48. We never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system. -The Bhagavad Gita

49. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success. -The Bhagavad Gita

50. Selfish action imprisons the world. Act selflessly, without any thought of personal profit. -The Bhagavad Gita

51. Reshape yourself through the power of your will; never let yourself be degraded by self-will. -The Bhagavad Gita

52. The wise unify their consciousness and abandon attachment to the fruits of action. -The Bhagavad Gita

53. When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union. -The Bhagavad Gita

54. The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self. -The Bhagavad Gita

55. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts. -The Bhagavad Gita

56. It is I who remain seated in the heart of all creatures as the inner controller of all; and it is I who am the source of memory, knowledge and the ratiocinative faculty. Again, I am the only object worth knowing through the Vedas; I alone am the origin of Vedānta and the knower of the Vedas too. -The Bhagavad Gita

57. There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be. -The Bhagavad Gita

58. For even if the greatest sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered righteous, because of his righteous will. And he shall soon become pure and reach everlasting peace. For this is my word of promise, that he who loves me shall not perish. -The Bhagavad Gita

59. The immature think that knowledge and action are different, but the wise see them as the same. -The Bhagavad Gita

60. Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that. -The Bhagavad Gita

61. His judgment will be better and his vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does. -The Bhagavad Gita

62. The rajasic person is full of energy; the tamasic person is sluggish, indifferent, insensitive; the sattvic person, calm, resourceful, compassionate, and selfless. Yet all three are always present at some level of awareness, and their proportions change: their interplay is the dynamics of personality. -The Bhagavad Gita

63. The person is the same; he is simply experiencing the play of the gunas. As long as he identifies with his body and mind, he is at the mercy of this play. -The Bhagavad Gita

64. Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom. -The Bhagavad Gita

65. When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard. -The Bhagavad Gita

66. We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands. -The Bhagavad Gita

67. the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious. -The Bhagavad Gita

68. Those who are tamasic draw their pleasures from sleep, indolence, and intoxication. Both in the beginning and in the end, this happiness is a delusion. -The Bhagavad Gita

69. Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve. -The Bhagavad Gita

70. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. -The Bhagavad Gita

71. Earth, water, fire, air, akasha, mind, intellect, and ego – these are the eight divisions of my prakriti. -The Bhagavad Gita

72. While seeing or hearing, touching or smelling; eating, moving about, or sleeping; breathing or speaking, letting go or holding on, even opening or closing the eyes, they understand that these are only the movements of the senses among sense objects. -The Bhagavad Gita

73. Whatever happened, happened for the good. Whatever is happening, is happening for the good. Whatever will happen, will also happen for the good. -The Bhagavad Gita

74. Change is the law of the universe. You can be a millionaire or a pauper in an instant. -The Bhagavad Gita

75. The soul is neither born and nor does it die. -The Bhagavad Gita

76. Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. -The Bhagavad Gita

77. When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. -The Bhagavad Gita

78. Lust, anger and greed are the three gates to self-destructive hell. -The Bhagavad Gita

79. There is neither this world, nor the world beyond. nor happiness for the one who doubts. -The Bhagavad Gita

80. 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. -The Bhagavad Gita

Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Love

Lord Krishna is an example of pure love. Let’s see what he says about love in the Bhagavad Gita.

81. The only way you can conquer me is through Love, and there I am gladly conquered. -The Bhagavad Gita

82. What ineffable joy does one find through Love of me, the blissful Atman. Once that joy is realized, all earthly pleasures fade into nothingness. -The Bhagavad Gita

83. Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with Love, compassion, humility, and devotion. -The Bhagavad Gita

84. I regard as great even the smallest gift offered by my devotees in pure love, but even great offerings presented by non-devotees do not please me. -The Bhagavad Gita

85. He who has no attachments can really love others, for his love is pure and divine. -The Bhagavad Gita

86. Blessed is a human birth, even the dwellers in heaven desire this birth, for true knowledge and pure love may be attained only by a human being. -The Bhagavad Gita

87. I, the atman, dear to the devotees, am attainable by Love and devotion. -The Bhagavad Gita

88. By serving me with steadfast Love, a man or woman goes beyond the Gunas. Such a one is fit for union with Brahman. -The Bhagavad Gita

89. But of all, I could name, verily love is the highest. Love & devotion that make one forgetful of everything else, Love that unites the lover with me. -The Bhagavad Gita

You can read these Bhagavad Gita quotes on a daily basis and understand them deeply. You can also start reading the Gita at any time.

Hare Krishna.

Ankita