Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

My No. 1 focus was on my foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in the darkest hour of need.

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

To help people who do not have any hope, helps you.

I do this because it pleases me, and there is nothing I would not do so as human effort goes, to advance any movement designed to reach and rescue perishing humanity. I have a heart for others and that is why I am in this work. When I see suffering about me, I myself suffer, and so when I put forth my efforts to relieve others, I am simply working for myself. I do not consider that I have made any sacrifice whatever; no man does unless he violates his conscience