Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

The toughest opponent is me. A lot of times, you don't want to train. You don't want to box. Sometimes, life hits you to the point where you don't even want to live. You have to fight with that person. You have to make yourself wake up in the morning. You have to make yourself watch your weight. That's how I fight with that person.

Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I don't know anyone who couldn't use a little boost in their energy and self-control.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

All I can do is control my preparation process from both a physical and mental stand point.

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

Every day, I tell myself, 'It will be better if I spend more time on thinking about good ideas and working instead of watching TV or shopping.'

I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!

Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

You just gotta stay positive and take every day as a chance to improve and every practice. And every week you're not having a fight, there's a chance to improve.

I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

I always found it hard to motivate myself.