Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

One of the things that has really hit home for me is that the world is how we decide it is going to be. Very few things just happen. They grow out of history, and they grow out of the present, and the more we can get a sense of how our actions lead into other actions in the future, hopefully we'll learn to make better decisions.

Men must make their history themselves through their own actions

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

We have a choice every day to do whatever we do, and that choice is quite scary because it could absolutely change everything about our lives. It's important to keep reminding myself that I have a choice.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

The Choice, after all, is ours to make.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make

Flying or falling, it's up to us.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

We create our fate everyday

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.