Peace Quotes
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All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.
Bob Ney
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Benjamin Cardozo
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We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
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The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.
Dalai Lama
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
Patrick Ness
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There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
Maelle Gavet
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There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
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To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.
Daisy Whitney
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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I picked up the phone and called Herbert Hainer, the CEO of Adidas, and said, 'Well, it's Peace Day coming up. I think it's about time after 60 years to end this feud. How about doing something together?'
Jochen Zeitz
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There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.
Ulysses S. Grant
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We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.
Javier Solana
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
Paul Theroux
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It is ridiculous that British troops are here in Crossmaglen. The claim is that they're in Ireland keeping the peace between the two communities. But there is only one community in South Armagh, so what the heck are they doing here?
Clare Short
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The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.
Ehud Barak
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In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.
Duane Chapman
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
Benito Mussolini
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.
Betty Wright
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I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!
Queen Noor of Jordan
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
Angelina Jolie