75 Peace Quotes
Each day for the 75 day countdown to International Peace Day 2013, Space For Peace posted a quote on Facebook related to peace. In case you missed any, find them all hear;
75.
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best they have and all that they are.’
Hafsat Abiola
74.
Peace is a daily, a weekly a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on’
John F Kennedy
73.
One does not need buildings, money, power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train’
Morihei Ueshiba
72.
‘Peace at home, Peace in the world’
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
71.
Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts: differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means: through dialogue, education, knowledge: and through humane ways’
Dalai Lama XIV
70.
Smiling is important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have Peace…. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing and being Peace that we can make Peace’
Thich Nhat Hanh
69.
‘the happiness, peace and freedom we seek relies upon us seeing each moment through new eyes’
Christina Feldman
68.
‘It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it’
Eleanor Roosevelt
67.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal’
Martin Luther King, Jr
66.
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind’
William Collins
65.
‘The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace’
Silvia Cartwright
64.
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our minds. We can send so-called ‘peacekeeping forces’ into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be opposed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
63.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.’
Desmond Tutu
62.
If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. this is the most basic kind of peace work.
Thich Nhat Hanh
61.
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown’
John Buchan
60.
For a day, just for one day
Talk about that which disturbs no one
And bring some peace into your
Beautiful eyes
Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī
59.
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world’
Etty Hillesum
58.
‘Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence’
Dorothy Thompson
57.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home’
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
56.
”Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
55.
”The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace”
Carlos Santana
54.
Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding”
Albert Einstein
53.
‘Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves”
William Hazlitt
52.
If civilisation is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
51.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky
50.
”If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbours.
If there is to be peace between neighbours
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
Lao Tzu
49.
Everything we desire is already within us. Love, happiness, peace and abundance. Harnessing these powers means ewe sow the seeds of real change.
Edwin Mamerto
48.
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart…
Ritu Ghatourey
47.
The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.”
Allan Lokos
46.
Choose love and peace will follow. Choose peace and love will follow.”
Mary Helen Doyle
45.
Choose your thoughts carefully. Keep what brings you peace, release what brings you suffering. And know that happiness is just a thought away.
Nishan Panwar
44.
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
Marvin gaye
43.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Wald Emmerson
42.
Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
41.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe
Wayne Dyer
40.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Ghandi
39.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
38.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
37.
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
Maya Angelou
36.
‘’Each of us by our daily acts of peace and our commitment to building a better world can inspire others and help create a groundswell for peace too powerful to be turned aside’’
David Krieger
35.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
34.
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”
Thomas Merton
33. ‘’It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination’’
Frederico Mayor
32.
The deepest…dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation.”
Scott Russell Sanders
31.
‘’Peace may sound simple – one beautiful word – but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal’’
Yehudi Menuhin
30.
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.’’
Bishop Oscar Romero
29.
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.”
Mitsugi Saotome
28.
‘’The structure of peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world’’
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
27.
‘’We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war’’
Martin Luther King, Jr
26 – 27/8/13
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.”
Toni Morrison
25. ‘’Peace is not something you wish for; it is something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away’’
Robert Fulgham
24.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
23.
We have enough people who tell it like it is- now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ”
Robert Orben
22. ‘’With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests’’
Mahatma Gandhi
21.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J Donald Walters
20. ‘’ A little peace here, a little peace there, and pretty soon all the peaces will fit together to make one big peace everywhere’’
Swami Beyondananda
19.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
18.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots
Napoleon Bonaparte
17.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.”
― Dorothy Thompson
16.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
― Indira Gandhi
15.
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
Daniel Berrigan
14.
Peace is the number one beautiful ornament you can wear, I really believe that. They say you should always wear a smile, but I don’t believe that you should “always” wear a smile, seriously, you’re going to look stupid! But peace, you should always carry peace within you, its the most beautifying thing you could ever have or do. Peace makes your heart beautiful and it makes you look beautiful, too. You want to have perfect physical posture when you stand, sit, and walk, and peace is the perfect posture of the soul, really. Try perfect posture outside as well as inside. Peace creates grace and grace gives peace.”
― C. JoyBell C.
13. ‘’Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence’’
Coleman McCarthy
12.
We measure our wealth by the positives we hold onto, we measure our peace by the negatives we let go of
Mark Sidney
11.
‘’Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage- to move in the opposite direction’’
Albert Einstein
10 – 12/9/13
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
9.
‘’If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation’’
Dalai Lama
8.
If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.”
― Deepak Chopra
7.
’’All these you may avoid but the lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an if. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of the thought of an if, as, ‘if you said so then I said so’, and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your IF is the only peace-maker; much virtue in if’’
William Shakespeare, As you like it
6.
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”
― John Lennon
5.
‘’Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited’’
Alice Walker
4.
‘’… to achieve peace of mind, people have to kindle a vision of what they really want for themselves and keep that vision alive in the face of inner and outer hardships, obstacles and setbacks’’
Jon Kabat-Zinn
3.
‘’Peace is a conscious choice’’
John Denver
2.
Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smie can accomplish’’
Mother teresa
1.
‘’There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace’’
Kofi Annan
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