"With love and patience, nothing is impossible"
About this Quote
The absolutism of “nothing is impossible” is the tell. On the surface it’s motivational, but the subtext is organizational and spiritual: don’t confuse slow progress with failure, and don’t treat obstacles as permission to quit. Ikeda, as the public face of Soka Gakkai International, spent decades translating a Buddhist-inflected practice into a modern self-help cadence that travels well across cultures. This sentence is built to be repeated, memorized, and shared; it’s portable doctrine.
Contextually, it lands in the postwar Japanese landscape that shaped Ikeda’s worldview: reconstruction, social volatility, the hunt for meaning in mass society. The quote offers a counter-program to cynicism. It doesn’t argue with structural limits directly; it sidesteps them by focusing on inner posture and relational stamina. That’s also its risk: “nothing is impossible” can slide into blaming the struggling for not loving hard enough. Still, the intent is clear - a call to persistent, humane effort as a form of power.
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| Topic | Perseverance |
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Ikeda, Daisaku. (2026, January 14). With love and patience, nothing is impossible. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-love-and-patience-nothing-is-impossible-110681/
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Ikeda, Daisaku. "With love and patience, nothing is impossible." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-love-and-patience-nothing-is-impossible-110681/.
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"With love and patience, nothing is impossible." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-love-and-patience-nothing-is-impossible-110681/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.













