Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

Human improvement is from within outward.

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory.

We are the change we're waiting for.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

The world can only change from within.

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Awareness is empowering.