Peace Quotes

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong, Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,Create a new;from the wisdom of the past, Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

Peace be with you.

Bible

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

Ulysses S. Grant

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.

Bible

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

Bible

I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

Peace at any price.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will toward men.

Bible

Peace be to this house.

Bible

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Napoleon

Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

Bible

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Bible

Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within they palaces.

Bible

If peace cannot be maintained with honor it is no longer peace.

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

Adlai Stevenson

The war-drum throbb'd no longer and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man the federation of the world.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I

The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas Alva Edison

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus only by hard work risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Alva Edison

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

Wendell Phillips

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.

Pär Lagerkvist

We're all only fragile threads but what a tapestry we make.

Today let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

Daphne Rose Kingma

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Cicero

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

William Collins

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

When somebody is angry with us we draw a halo around his or her head in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well we don't know! We know though that when we draw a halo around a person suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.

Barbara Markoff

Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

Peter McWilliams

The average pencil is seven inches long with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

Jean de La Fontaine

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers powers that would astonish him that he never dreamed of possessing forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Orison S. Marden

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.

James Ramsey Ullman

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace harmony health love and abundance. Then whenever doubt anxiety or fear try to call me they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Edith Armstrong

You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

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