Dalai Lama Quotes About Determination

• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

• Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Opportunity, Challenges

• You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Self Confidence, Feelings

• A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Kindness, Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

• It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Graduation, Determination

  Emory University commencement speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Hard Times, Appreciate

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2011). “How to Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• Compassion
  is not helpless
  pity, but an
  awareness and
  determination
  that demands
  action.

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  Determination, Compassion, Demand

• The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day. Thank you. That is all.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Responsibility, Hands

• There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Past, Ordinary

• Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Attitude, Optimistic

• We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Motivation, Optimism

• Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Determination, Commitment

• Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Real, Dark

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