Peace Quotes

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
Amelia earhart, courage, 1927 - courage is the price that life exacts for...
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
Seneca - let tears flow of their own accord their flowing...
Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
Author Unknown
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
Hermocrates of Syracuse
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.
Jesse Louis Jackson
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.
Caitlin Matthews
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
American Prove
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
Nikita Khrushchev
Paul liu - we need peacemakers, not peacekeepers....
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
D. H. Lawrence
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
George S. Patton
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
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.
Barry Goldwate
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
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
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Bible
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex
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)
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.
Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01
I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - So all is peace.
Edward Lea
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
Carl von Clausewitz
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andr Gide
To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Seneca
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
Julius K. Nyerere