1,005 Quotes Regarding Peace


Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Phyllis McGinley

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy

Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis