Peace Quotes
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.Desiderius Erasmus
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
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.American Prove
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5: 9
One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.David Borenstein
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.Frank Herbert, Dune
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.Susan Partnow
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
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.John Wooden
The triumph of justice is the only peace.Robert Green Ingersoll
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Woodrow Wilson
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert Einstein
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.Jimi Hendrix
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.John Russell
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Woodrow Wilson
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.Author Unknown
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Kahlil Gibran
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.Martin Luthe
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.Buddha
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.Alice Walke
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari
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
The fact is that we prepare for war like giants, and for peace like pygmies.Lester Bowles Pearson
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war corruption, his disgrace.Thomason
Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.I Ching