Peace - Quotes & Sayings

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.

Barbara Boxer

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

Peter Yarrow

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Matthew Henry

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

Ravi Zacharias

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nelson Mandela

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Benazir Bhutto

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Maya Angelou

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Muhammad Ali

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.

Eckhart Tolle

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

Thomas Fuller

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.

Colin Powell

There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Jenny Nimmo

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.

Yayoi Kusama

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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.

Bernie Siegel

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Desmond Tutu

You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.

Stacy London

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Dorothy Thompson

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Charles Spurgeon

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

Sharan Burrow

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Peace Pilgrim

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.

Harry S Truman

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Sylvia Plath

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

George Harrison

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

Yayoi Kusama

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.

John Lennon

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.

John Wooden

I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Virat Kohli

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.

Jimmy Carter

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.

John F. Kennedy

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

George Ade

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Martin Luther

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.

Ernie Pyle

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

Hiawatha

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

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.

John Lennon

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

Yitzhak Rabin

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela