Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.