Peace Quotes

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

George S. Patton

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

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

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right

We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Andrew Holmes

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Juvenal

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Juvenal

A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

American Prove

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

James Allen

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

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.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Kelle

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is... Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Jeff Melvoin

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations... is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carte

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery

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

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non - Violence in Peace and War".

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Ronald Reagan

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

I took a speed - Reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Woody Allen

Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

U Thant

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca