Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

To combat hatred directed toward a person, a Buddhist cultivates loving kindness toward that person.

— Dalai Lama XIV

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The only way to fail is to quit.

— Dalai Lama XIV

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

— Dalai Lama XIV

We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity’s problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

— Dalai Lama XIV
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Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

— Dalai Lama XIV

If one’s cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

— Dalai Lama XIV

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

— Dalai Lama XIV

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

— Dalai Lama XIV

It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

— Dalai Lama XIV

I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

— Dalai Lama XIV

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

— Dalai Lama XIV
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Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Real power has to do with one’s ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Real

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.

— Dalai Lama XIV
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