Daisaku Ikeda Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Philosophy

• Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Opportunity, Greatness

• What is defeat in life? It is not merely making a mistake; defeat means giving up on yourself in the midst of difficulty. What is true success in life? True success means winning in your battle with yourself. Those who persist in the pursuit of their dreams, no matter what the hurdles, are winners in life, for they have won over their weaknesses.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Giving Up, Mistake

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.107, Middleway Press

• Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Compassion, Giving

• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Leadership, Hope, Giving

• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Creativity, Mean

• People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

• You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Rain, Heart

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

• No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Matter, Spirit

• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Giving Up, Struggle

• Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving, Fearless, Overcoming

  Daisaku Ikeda (2000). “The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life's Questions”, p.131, Middleway Press

• Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Peace, Giving Up

• The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Karma, Art, Peace

• You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Motivation, Effort

• ‎"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

• Anyone who has ever made a resolution discovers that the strength of that determination fades in time. The moment you feel that is when you should make a fresh determination. Tell yourself, “OK! I will start again from now!” If you fall down seven times, get up an eighth. Don’t give up when you feel discouraged-jus t pick yourself up and renew your determination each time.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Determination, Giving Up, Fall

• To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

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