Peace Quotes

Find peace in where and what you are.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon

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".

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.

Dwight Eisenhowe

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Author Unknown

Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: ? Warmly welcome to our family?. Our new Europe is born.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Mille

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. On importance of the MX missile.

Ronald Reagan

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Fidel Castro, Speech given in January 1963, calling for communist revolution in Latin America

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind.... .

Phylos the Tibetan

To insist on strength... is not war - Mongering. It is peace - Mongering.

Barry Goldwate

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln

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. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace.

Psalm 3711 TLB Bible

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell, (attributed)

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Carl von Clausewitz

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

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.

Bhagavad Gita

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

The Talmud

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace - - In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

Croesus of Lydia

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.

Joseph Roux

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Woodrow Wilson

This is the true nature of home - - It is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

John Ruskin

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Walt Whitman

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

In Italy for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare