Faith is shown in your strength and ability as an individual. Therefore, please chant earnestly, study hard, exert yourself, be creative and enterprising, and throw all your youthful energy into your work.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 371

Daisaku Ikeda

The fact is, the harder we strive for kosen-rufu, the greater the good fortune and wisdom we will acquire. Soka Gakkai activities benefit others and ourselves at the same time.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, pp. 237-238

Daisaku Ikeda

Who in actuality is striving earnestly to share Nichiren Buddhism with others? Who is working wholeheartedly to spread our movement for kosen-rufu? It is our members, all ordinary people from different walks of life, with our women’s division members in the forefront.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 358 Women’s Division Founded (1951)

Daisaku Ikeda