Peace - Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wayne Dyer

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.

Bethany Hamilton

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Toni Collette

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

Sandra Cisneros

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Thomas Hobbes

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

Hassan Nasrallah

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.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

Frank Abagnale

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

Jason Momoa

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Carl von Clausewitz

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

Maximillian Degenerez

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

John Boyle O'Reilly

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

George W. Bush

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

Haile Selassie

Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

Patch Adams

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.

Ronald Reagan

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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.

Sai Baba

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

Woodrow Wilson

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Theodore Roosevelt

Every human longs for peace and love.

Hiawatha

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

Najib Razak

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

Chung Mong-joon

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.

Scilla Elworthy

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

Peace Pilgrim

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Graham Greene

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.

Jim James

Peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

Martin McGuinness

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

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.

Desmond Tutu

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Sherman Hemsley

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

John Lennon

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

Gary Busey

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Victoria Osteen

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

Moshe Dayan

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

Loni Love

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Agnetha Faltskog

I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.

John Woo

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.

Stanley Kubrick

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Richard Simmons

Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

Ban Ki-moon

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.

Ban Ki-moon