Dalai Lama Quotes

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

None of us believe that in order to run a business, you have to leave your humanity at home.

Education must establish the moral unity of mankind.

Civilization depends on morality.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.