1,005 Quotes Regarding Peace


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

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

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

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai Baba

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Albert Camus

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Nelson Mandela

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Nelson Mandela

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther