Peace Quotes

With malice toward none, with charity for all, ... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of wa.

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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)

Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #8455

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

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

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.

Paul McCartney, The Observer (1987)

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

Eve Denise Curie

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

Juvenal

Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non - Violence.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

I define joy as a sustained sense of well - Being and internal peace - A connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.

Julius K. Nyerere

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Peace visits not the guilty mind. Nemo Malus Felix.

Juvenal

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.

Stephen Shobe

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

Author Unknown

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

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

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

Anton Chekhov, 1897

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

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

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare