Dalai Lama Quotes

I do what I can do to help my defense.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Each of us can do something to help someone.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Be a doer and not a critic.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

I’m not a seat warmer. I want to get in there and make a difference.

It became brave men to give not merely advice but practical assistance by assuming the lead in an emergency;