Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that you are far greater than you think and have truly amazing potential. The key is to tap into your higher self and unleash your full capacity for success and happiness.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact — everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

You can do anything you want to do.

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.

You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.