Dalai Lama Quotes About Attitude

• Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Confidence, Buddhist

• If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Teacher

  Dalai Lama (2016). “The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

• Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Compassion, Faces

• Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Attitude, Factors

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

• A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Hurt

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

• True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Attitude

• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

  Dalai Lama

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Heart

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

• Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Kindness, Compassion

• A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Mind, Benefits

• A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Thinking, Genuine Friends

• Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Thinking, Differences

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

• There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

  Dalai Lama

  Children, Honesty, Attitude

• If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Inner Peace, Ifs

  "5 Ways to Peace for Control Freaks" by Kathryn Remati, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2015.

• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Attitude, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama In Depth". "Yoga Journal" Interview, No. 90, (p. 51), January - February 1990.

• One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Attitude, Clever

• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

• Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Offering, Generosity

• A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Life, Family

• I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Attitude, Believe

• Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you have more of an open mind, and you cultivate a sense of concern for others' well-being, then, no matter what others' attitudes are, you can keep your inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Self, Concern For Others

• If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Jealous, Humble

• If an individual has a calm state of mind,
  that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
  even in the presence of great agitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Views, Mind

• If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Hands, Inner Peace

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