Peace Quotes: Inspiring Harmony, Compassion, and Inner Tranquility
Embracing the Power of Peace
Peace is a state of harmony, both within ourselves and among individuals and nations. It is a guiding principle that calls us to cultivate compassion, understanding, and respect for one another. In this article, we delve into the realm of peace and present a collection of inspiring quotes that celebrate its transformative power, urging us to embrace peace in our hearts, relationships, and the world.
Peace is not merely the absence of conflict; it is a profound state of well-being that arises from the conscious choices we make, the values we uphold, and the way we interact with others. It is a journey of inner reflection, forgiveness, and a commitment to creating a world rooted in justice, equality, and harmony.
Words of Inspiration: Quotes that Nurture Peace
Throughout history, philosophers, peace activists, and spiritual leaders have shared their insights and reflections on the significance of peace in our lives and in society. Their words inspire us to cultivate peace within ourselves, promote understanding, and work towards creating a world free from violence and discord. Below, we present a collection of poignant peace quotes that invite self-reflection, foster compassion, and remind us of the power we hold to bring about positive change.
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time – at long last – be established and maintained.
I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That’s something that can discern the peace and love.
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
I’m literally fighting for the equality of every man, woman and child regardless of race, religion, color, creed, and sexual orientation and here to spread a message of peace, love, and positivity.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
India is a country that has no direct interests in some areas of global conflict. It has very good relations with countries in conflict or countries facing difficult security situations, and I believe Indian diplomacy is very well received. India is a bridge-builder, an honest broker, and a messenger of peace.
There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it’s getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Never underestimate or mock peace.
Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace – all we need is a fighting chance.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
To discover your mission and put it into action – instead of worrying on the sidelines – is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that – given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind – chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.
The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world’s most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
My government’s first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.
Every time I’m in Georgia, I eat a peach for peace.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Jesus said, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ And I think a lot of people don’t understand that there’s a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying ‘I love peace’ doesn’t bring it.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
For too many of our citizens, Christianity has become entwined with the ecstatic worship of the gun and violence. For the adherents, there is no compassion, no love thy neighbor, no peace, no reason, and God only helps those who arm themselves.
I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
For me to be creative, I have to have peace.
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Just as ‘Islam’ literally means ‘peace,’ none of the 99 names of Allah mean violence. Similarly, every religion in the world stands for peace, compassion, and brotherhood.
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term ‘true Christian.’ He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
Just as it is fire’s nature to burn, it is meditation’s nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.
The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
Peace is the cornerstone of our development.
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
The price of peace is righteousness.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I’ve worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
When life doesn’t make sense, we can still have peace.
One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
Islam means peace.
I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.
We have enormous interests in the Asia Pacific. In addition to our economy, we need to secure our allies, protect our environment, promote peace and stability, ensure the free-flow of commerce, and stand up for human rights.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
I wanted to make peace with my dad. I didn’t get to really make peace before he passed away and so I’m hoping to connect to him spiritually. I feel like he’s always guiding me.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
In the scriptures, ‘peace’ means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person’s heart.
Peace is produced by war.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
It’s a full time job – trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.
Peace is a conscious choice.
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.
To me, it’s that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
The opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Peace is not a state – it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It’s possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it’s like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
Every married man who wants peace in the relationship, should learn the trick to avoid that one question – ‘How is the food?’
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Don’t worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I’ve worked hard on myself.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
If you want peace work for justice.
At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.
You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there’s part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God… Islam is a religion of peace. You don’t attack. You explain.
Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it’s a reason it’s going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president’s direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that’s extraordinarily important.
The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator’s role combines those of a ship’s pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
I play for peace and love.
One can go to war alone, but you can’t build peace alone.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
If we really want to make change, we have to make peace with the fact that we cannot self-exempt every time the calendar offers us a more attractive alternative.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.
This film ‘Hero’ talks about the peace of Chinese people.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Peace should be understood in a human way – in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.
Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.
There’s nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.
Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.
We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.
I should like to think that we’ll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, ‘Enough! Let us live as one!’
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
I like my peace. I am happy in my space.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
All I need for a perfect holiday is sun and some peace and quiet. Those make for perfect book-writing conditions.
A quiet mind cureth all.
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
On a film set, where there is so much chaos, I find inner peace.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people’s conscience.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you’re going to have more war and destruction.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Maybe it’s like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.
But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
There’s so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I’m not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.
Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability in the entire western world.
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.
I’m at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn’t competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I’ve gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
The European Union is the world’s most successful invention for advancing peace.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
New roads carve up the countryside, dispelling peace, creating a penumbra of noise, pollution and ugliness. Their effects spread for many miles.
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
I really love peace and quiet.
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, ‘Henry, have you made your peace with God?’ Thoreau said, ‘I didn’t know we’d quarreled.’
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it’s important that I share the love and peace.
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It’s the failure of diplomacy. ‘War and Peace,’ ‘A Farewell to Arms,’ ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls.’ Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They’re just reminders to stay… calm.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we’ve set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
I’m happy and at peace with where I am at life.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Defending peace is the duty of all.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Music is something that should give you peace.
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us – not battling those who are on the same side of seeking justice and peace.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
Walter Mercado means love, peace and understanding, means compassion.
Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‘studies’ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‘studies’ are about propaganda rather than serious education.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.
May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
In time of peace prepare for war.
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‘then’ and ‘maybe,’ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.
There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
My different personalities leave me in peace now.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
I feel like I play better when I’m calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn’t realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
It’s just the risk that I take and the sacrifice that I make: Putting myself, my career, my family’s peace of mind on the line just to do right by my fans. It ain’t no gray area: You’re either with that and willing to go out of your way to make people who contribute to your dreams coming true happy or you aren’t.
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.
We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world – a universe – a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.
The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.
The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
Well the message I have for everyone working on peace, is that bringing results on peace can be easily entrained passively.
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.
We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, ‘No,’ and presented a peace plan.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
I haven’t had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It’s somewhat complicated to understand that. I’ve hardly ever spoken about it. You’re in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That’s a wealth that’s priceless. You can’t buy compassion.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Wishful thinking won’t make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin’s worldview won’t make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
I love acting. It’s my playground, it let’s me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Carrying yourself with poise and joy and peace within – that’s sexy.
Peace of mind for five minutes, that’s what I crave.
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
You don’t make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.
I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
‘Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity.
I’m at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I’m a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I’m doing.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
You have to understand that people have to pay a price for peace. If you dare to struggle, you dare to win.
Cross the meadow and the stream and listen as the peaceful water brings peace upon your soul.
But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It’s very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
Negative peace is possible as long as you have a strong army.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land… let there be no more wars.
I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace – or, rather, a humiliating surrender.
The NHS is one of the most humanitarian acts that has ever been undertaken in peace time.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
True humility is contentment.
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers – one that would protect Americans’ liberty at all times – both in war, and in peace.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
I like peace and quiet. It’s like I’m a loner.
Let’s drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let’s drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions – in a Freudian way – to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
The ‘peace movement’ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord’s presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy.
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
I have long been an advocate for peace and human rights in Canada and around the globe.
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
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.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.
The end of art is peace.
It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
We in the West think of peace as society’s default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual’s right to live.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Let us have peace.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria – but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
It’s not a choice between war and peace. It’s a choice between war and endless war. It’s not appeasement. I think it’s better even to call it American self-interest.
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
‘Peace Train’ is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
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.
The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
I am trying to make my peace with the paparazzi.
Ms. Clinton, like the Obama administration more broadly, believes that appeasing Islamists… promotes peace and stability.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.
Peace, unity, love, and nonviolence should be our rallying cry and the catalyst for change in our nation.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
I believe it is peace in our time.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace – you feel as though you’re where you’re meant to be.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don’t matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I’m in good hands.
Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive… to live now… to have the courage to confront each day.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
We work together. No one is more important than the other. We are all Zimbabweans. We want to grow our economy. We want peace in our country.
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in my country.
We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I’m not talking to anyone; I’m not managing anything. It’s just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
I’ve always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We’re not protesting from the outside. We’re inside.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
We make war that we may live in peace.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one’s home or the peace of one’s mind.
In conclusion, peace quotes serve as reminders of the profound impact that peace can have on our lives and the world. As we navigate the complexities of life, may these quotes inspire us to embrace peace within ourselves, foster harmonious relationships, and actively contribute to creating a more peaceful and just society. Let us remember that peace begins with each individual, and through our collective efforts, we can sow the seeds of understanding, compassion, and unity. May we strive for a world where peace prevails, and all beings can thrive in harmony and love.
