Daisaku Ikeda Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• 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

• Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Buddhist, Struggle, Character

• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Knowing, Long, Cynical

• Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.

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  Keys, Roots, Long

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Struggle, School

• Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

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  Attitude, Keys, Challenges

• If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

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  Heart, Winning, Challenges

• People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
  oneself.

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  People, Inspire, Challenges

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

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  Believe, Pride, Decision

• When we have a genuine sense that,
  no matter how difficult our present
  circumstances, we are not alone-that
  we are vitally connected with others
  and with the world-we will, without
  fail, rise up to the challenge of living
  again.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Challenges, World, Matter

• Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life’s challenges is actually our own fear of failure.

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  Challenges, Obstacles, Fear Of Failure

• If you summon your courage to challenge something, you’ll never be left with regret. How sad it is to spend your life wishing, “If only I’d had a little more courage.” Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Regret, Believe, Challenges

• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

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