Top 94 If You Want Peace Quotes
#1. If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.
Chris Hani
#2. If you want to be loved, LOVE. If you want to be understood, UNDERSTAND. If you want peace, MAKE PEACE. If you want light, LIGHT. If you want to be seen, SHINE. If you want to be heard, LISTEN.
Abhishek Kumar
#4. If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine. If you walk alone for awhile, fine. If you don't like what's going on somewhere, leave. Maintain a portable paradise within yourself.
Peter McWilliams
#5. If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.
John Lennon
#6. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#7. If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#8. Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
Timothy Geithner
#9. No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent din in the writer's head. And then, if you want peace, you just have to pull it out and freeze it in print. Nothing less would do.
Jyoti Arora
#10. I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Sarada Devi
#11. If you want peace, look for it where it is, not in conflict.
Alan Cohen
#12. I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.
Ted Nugent
#13. If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want justice, defend life.
If you want life, embrace truth.
Pope John Paul II
#15. Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
Pope Paul VI
#16. If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.
Iyanla Vanzant
#17. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#18. You have to be willing to face evil and resist it if you want peace.
Anonymous
#19. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.
J.B. Salsbury
#20. If you want peace, fill your mind with peaceful thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#24. If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Peter McWilliams
#25. I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
John Frederick Maurice
#26. Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
James Clavell
#27. If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your
hearts and minds.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#29. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.
C.S. Lewis
#30. The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is ... I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Marco Rubio
#31. If you want inner peace, unconditionally forgive everyone. If you want world peace, be an example and love everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#32. People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
#33. In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.
William C. Brown
#34. My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
David Peace
#35. If you want to have world peace, go to your house and love your family.
Mother Teresa
#36. You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn't owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you're going to have to give up your right to understanding. It's called trust.
Bill Johnson
#37. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?
Teresa Of Avila
#38. If you want to destroy a man, you don't take his life. You let him live. Then you take his peace of mind, his possessions, his loved ones... everything he owns. Then he will beg you to kill him.
Elizabeth Ellen Carter
#39. Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.
Swami Satchidananda
#40. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
Joseph Murphy
#41. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
#42. If you want success and wealth, then stop spending too much time on cyber world.
Ehabib
#43. If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with ... and then spread and radiate peace and love.
Rajneesh
#44. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.
Romano Prodi
#45. If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.
Molly Friedenfeld
#46. If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. If you want to have world peace - peace in your family, peace in your town and peace in your own bedroom - you simply begin with whatever creates peace within yourself. This vibration will go out from you in waves, and these waves have a very positive impact on the world.
Christiane Northrup
#48. The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.
Shimon Peres
#49. But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.
Suzanne Collins
#50. It's vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.
Joel Osteen
#51. People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#52. Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.
Bashar Al-Assad
#53. But these trees don't grow impatiently. They move with a grace, with patience, with trust. There is no hurry anywhere else except in your mind. If you really want to be in a state of peace and joy, you will have to unlearn your old habit for achieving things quickly
Osho
#54. You can do more! A lot more. If you want a ... record you can be proud of, you'll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to.
John Knowles
#55. If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.
Ram Dass
#56. If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind.
Forrest Curran
#57. It's never easy moving forward in life. But if you want to prosper & enjoy life ... keep moving ahead on that road. Forward progress is always the wisest choice anyone can make.
Timothy Pina
#58. If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
Jaggi Vasudev
#59. You want to carry some peace-making message to him?"
"If it'll help," she agrees.
"Okay. Tel him he's an absolute bastard-a scrawny, ugly, bald motherfucker who is going to die cold and alone. He'll know what it means.
Abria Mattina
#60. It's not a question of what you want. No sane person ever WANTS a war. But if you see outsiders as a threat and believe that an armed defense is the only way you're going to be safe from them, then you're going to find yourselves in the middle of a war whether you want one or not.
Chris Lester
#61. You want me to flash you" I said
He nodded vigorously, like I'd asked if he wanted fries with that.
"And then you'll pass on?"
"That's all I want. So, yeah."
I could almost believe that a fourteen-year-old boy could find deep spiritual peace from a pair of boobs.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#62. If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
Wayne Dyer
#63. I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
Markus Wolf
#64. Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#65. You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.
Peace Pilgrim
#66. Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.
Prem Rawat
#67. If you're going to have peace rather than violence, both sides have got to want it. One side alone can't make peace.
Louis L'Amour
#68. If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
William J. Clinton
#69. Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#70. What do you want ?
It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.
Rachel Cohn
#71. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
#72. If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
William Graham Sumner
#73. If you want to better our world tomorrow ... start empowering our children today!
Timothy Pina
#74. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.
Shimon Peres
#75. If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
Stewart Udall
#76. I've found peace here at the co-op. You could stay with us, if you want. Become a ROFLcopter.
Rick Riordan
#77. If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.
David Miscavige
#78. If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.
Dan Millman
#79. If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.
Richard Carlson
#80. If you want to attain peace, live peacefully
Gil Fronsdal
#81. I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.
Curtis LeMay
#82. Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.
Dalai Lama
#83. If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
Anthony De Mello
#84. If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
Will Rogers
#85. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#86. How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?
Nhat Hanh
#87. If you want to make room in your life for peace and patience, take small steps on organization, know the value of time. Snatch, seize and enjoy every minute of it!
Emilie Barnes
#88. America you are beautiful ... and blessed ... The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.
Pope John Paul II
#89. If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
Russell Kirk
#90. You can't move forward in your life ...
If you constantly look at the roads you left behind you. Stay focus on what you want to accomplish today and tomorrow will be a much brighter day!
Timothy Pina
#91. Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#92. If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention
Iyanla Vanzant
#93. Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.
Byron Katie
#94. An idea is just another idea if you don't roll up your sleeves and make it happen. A dream is just another dream if you don't bring it to life. You must always Stay The Course ... no matter what happens in your life, to live the life you want!
Timothy Pina
