Peace Quotes

• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Mind

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

  

  Dorothy Thompson
  • Peace

• When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Chill

• Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • World
  • Action
  • Sleep

• Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

  

  James K. Polk
  • World
  • Country
  • Moral

• The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Real
  • War
  • Party

• I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Freedom

• Jerusalem is not just a beautiful city: the challenge is to show that Jerusalem can be shared in peace and respect.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Beautiful
  • Respect
  • City

• The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

  

  David Mamet
  • Live
  • Peace

• This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Blow

• History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • History
  • True

• Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

  

  Gerry Adams
  • War
  • Making
  • Harder

• We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

  

  Neville Chamberlain
  • Future
  • Political
  • Earth

• Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

  

  Black Kettle
  • Peace
  • Friendship

• My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Life
  • World
  • Peace

• Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Confidence
  • Keep

• There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Home
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

  

  Toby McKeehan
  • Great
  • Peace

• The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Question
  • Progress
  • Motherhood

• Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Truth
  • Peace

• I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

  

  Martina Hingis
  • Peace
  • Mom

• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar
  • Competition
  • Human Nature
  • Relative Condition

• The watchword is only one, categorical and challenging for everyone. It already flies across and lights the hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: Winning! And we will win, in order to finally give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, to the world. (From the declaration of war's announce, 10 June 1940)

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • World
  • Long
  • War

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