Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

I just get up again when I fall down.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

Those that weather the storm are the great ones.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?