Peace Quotes

To be at one with God is to be at peace... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
– Ralph Waldo Trine
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace.
– Morihei Ueshiba
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
– Ludwig von Mises
U.S. Policy toward the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories is unequivocal and has long been a matter of public record. We consider it to be contrary to international law and an impediment to the successful conclusion of the Middle East peace process.
– Cyrus Vance
In time of peace prepare for war.
– Flavius Renatus Vegetius
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
– Flavius Renatus Vegetius
Equilibrium is found when within the process there's a good balance between justice and peace, which makes it clear that there must be reparation for the society and for the victims and that amnesty or pardon cannot take in atrocious crimes.
– Alvaro Uribe Velez
For the first time Colombian society has begun to be very demanding in the sense that it is important to have peace but without impunity. Therefore, that historical path must be observed. It is also important to expect consequences, from those who favored from benevolent processes, who hopefully will not become obstacles for balanced processes.
– Alvaro Uribe Velez
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
– Alvaro Uribe Velez
To prate of peace, and arm your ironsides.
– Virgil
Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.
– George Voinovich
To be at peace in crime! ah, who can thus flatter himself.
– Voltaire
Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.
– John Warner
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
– George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
– George Washington
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
– Orson Welles
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
– Oscar Wilde
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
– Edmund Wilson
War creates peace like hate creates love.
– David L. Wilson
We're not losing the peace.
– Frank R. Wolf
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
– James D. Watkins
He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.
– Anthony Weldon
I really want to see Israel. I would like to come and to express my support in the peace process there, and help the war orphans.
– Peta Wilson
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
– Henry A. Wise
We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.
– Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!
– Sasha Azevedo
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
– David Herbert Lawrence
There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
– General Douglas MacArthur
I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and as an assault on Islam as we know it in the era of apostasy. I believe that the wrong done by Khomeini towards Islam and the Muslims is no less than that done by the author himself. As regards freedom of expression, I have said that it must be considered sacred and that thought can only be corrected by counter-thought. During the debate, I supported the boycott of the book as a means of maintaining social peace, granted that such a decision would not be used as a pretext to constrain thought.
– Naguib Mahfouz
As we approach the new millennium, we see how much remains to be done to give our young and future generations a better world to live in: a more peaceful society with a healthier, cleaner environment and a pattern of sustainable development which seeks to eradicate poverty. Education is the single most powerful means to improve the quality of life... the single most powerful weapon against poverty and intolerance. Education builds a culture of peace ... it empowers human beings, both young and adult, to be effective in their chosen sphere of activity ... education in its essence, opens doors to both personal and social development.
– Federico Mayor
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.
– Alfred North Whitehead
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
– Lord William Beveridge
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
– Bible
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
– George W. Bush
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
– George W. Bush
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
– Johnny Carson
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
– Jimmy Carter
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
– E. H. Chapin
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
– William F. Claire
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
– Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
– Sir James Glover
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
– Barbara Hall
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
– Hermocrates of Syracuse
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
– Herodotus
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
– Juvenal
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
– Juvenal
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
– Henry Miller
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
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
– John Muir
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
– Susan Partnow
A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.
– American Proverb
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
– Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
– Saint Francis of Assisi
Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
– Carlos Santana
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
– Robert J. Sawyer
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
– William Shakespeare
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
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
– William Shakespeare
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
– William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
– William Shakespeare
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
– Ruth Stout
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
– Cornelius Tacitus
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
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.
– Unknown
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
– Woodrow Wilson
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
– Oprah Winfrey
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
– Julia Louise Woodruff
We have no scar to show from happiness. We learn so little from peace.
– Chuck Palahniuk
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
– Judith Light
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
– Malcolm X
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
– George Armstrong Custer
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
– David Sarnoff
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
– Seamus Heaney
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
– Natan Sharansky
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
– Abdullah Ibrahim
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
– Chris Evans
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
– Winona Ryder
We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
– George W. Bush
We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.
– Li Peng
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
– Michelle Bachelet
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
– Juan Antonio Samaranch
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
– Michael McCaul
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
– Chief Joseph
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
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
– Thomas Merton
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
– Aung San Suu Kyi