Peace Quotes
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here On Middle East peace initiative.Shimon Peres
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.Marianne Williamson
Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.Maitri Upanishads
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love".
One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.Dwight Eisenhowe
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.Caitlin Matthews
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was then in his fifty - Fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.G. C. Lichtenberg
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.Orson Welles
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.Sir James Glove
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.Fridjof Nansen
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.Ronald Reagan
Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.U Thant
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.Seneca
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.Author Unknown
If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.Aldous Huxley
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars, " 1964
We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.Paul Liu
For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.William Blake
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.John Ruskin
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George S. Patton
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.George Santayana


