Peace Quotes - Page 3

There is no such thing as inner peace there is only nervousness and death.

When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.

Spanish Proverb

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.

Peace is not an absence of war it is a virtue a state of mind a disposition for benevolence confidence justice.

Benedict Spinoza

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

Daniel Berrigan

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where they make a desert they call it peace.

Tacitus

That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Colette

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Marcus Aurelius

It takes time love and support to find peace with the restless one.

In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

Swami Brahmananda

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If you do not find peace in yourself you will never find it anywhere else.

Paula A. Bendry

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

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to not in an exemption from suffering.

Francois de Fenelon

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.

Jerry W. McCant

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

Anonymous

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

L. Thomas Holdcroft

This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

George MacDonald

When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better but we will not resent life any longer.

William Barclay

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.

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