Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself.

I focus on myself, that's how I beat Wladimir Klitschko.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.