Top 500 Dalai Lama Xiv Quotes (2025 Update)

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength.

— Dalai Lama XIV

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

— Dalai Lama XIV

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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

— Dalai Lama XIV

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

— Dalai Lama XIV

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one’s family, to one’s neighborhood, to one’s community and so on.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Don’t use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

— Dalai Lama XIV

A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we’ll actually make it a happy year.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Someone else’s action should not determine your response.

— Dalai Lama XIV

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

— Dalai Lama XIV

The enemy is a very good teacher.

— Dalai Lama XIV

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

— Dalai Lama XIV

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