Top 100 Make Peace Quotes
#1. When after many battles past,
Both tir'd with blows,
make peace at last,
What is it, after all, the people get?
Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.
Francis Daniels Moore
#2. I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
Sarah Dessen
#4. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
James Baldwin
#5. We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin
#6. If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop.
Monojit Dutta
#7. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama XIV
#8. Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#10. Make peace with your past and make room to welcome your future.
Debasish Mridha
#11. When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return.
Stephen Richards
#12. We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
Vandana Shiva
#13. Religion is man's attempt to make peace with God on his own terms. Redemption is God's offer of peace through Jesus Christ. But this is "peace through the blood of His cross" (Col. 1:20).
Warren W. Wiersbe
#14. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
#16. The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
Willie Dixon
#18. There's too much tension in the world ... what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace.
Megan McCafferty
#19. It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.
Thomas Keating
#20. I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
Salman Rushdie
#21. There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A.J.P. Taylor
#22. We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it ... and to remember our Divine nature.
Sonia Choquette
#23. The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
Peter DeFazio
#24. No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints.
Jennifer Senior
#25. We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#26. Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
Nhat Hanh
#27. We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.
Surya Das
#28. A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it.
D.L. Moody
#29. Girls and boys, laughing and crying; for as they went home many of them found time to fight and make peace, to weep and play. I forgot my troubles in looking at them. And then, all those three years, I tried to understand why men should be for ever tormenting themselves.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
Richard Parsons
#32. Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I have had to make peace with the fact that I am at war. And sometimes you have to fight those who do not want love to conquer all.
Tori Amos
#33. When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.
Debbie Ford
#34. I cast my hook, my vote against it,
I decide to make peace.
I declare this intention but nothing answers.
And so I put peace in a warm place, towel-covered, to proof,
then into an oven. I wait.
Peace is patient and undemanding, it surpasseth.
Jane Hirshfield
#35. I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
Paddy Considine
#36. In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
Adolf Hitler
#37. You must find a way to make peace," said Inej. "At least for a while."
"This is not your concern," Matthias growled.
Kaz stepped forward, his expression dangerous. "It is very much our concern. And watch your tone.
Leigh Bardugo
#38. Every decision that affects our lives will be made by the person who has the power to make that decision, not the 'right' person or the 'smartest' person or the 'best' person. Make peace with this fact.
Marshall Goldsmith
#39. I think that skateboarding can absolutely help make peace ... I know skateboarding can bring people together. You can travel anywhere and if someone's skateboarding, they like you regardless of where you're from or what you do. You skateboard and that's it.
Jamie Thomas
#40. No one can defeat destiny,
But everyone can make peace with it.
At the same length:
No one can outsmart destiny,
But everyone can reason with it.
Stephan Attia
#41. We shouldn't get hung up on the questions we can't answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We're never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can't.
Nicole Williams
#42. The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.
Billy Graham
#43. Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.
Dan Millman
#44. Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.
Steve Erickson
#45. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
Mahmoud Darwish
#46. Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said ... 'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.
Barack Obama
#47. Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#48. My biggest advice to people now is that when you go through something traumatic, you've got to go talk to somebody. You've got to be able to understand it, make peace with it inside yourself, and you've got to be able to let it go.
Tracy Lawrence
#49. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
#50. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
Cordell Hull
#51. You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#52. In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.
Vasily Grossman
#53. Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
Elbert Hubbard
#54. To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.
Nelson Mandela
#55. forget about it; if today never becomes a yesterday, at least you can make peace with today. What already happened we can't change, but we can change what happens next!
Aleta Williams
#57. Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.
Alan Dershowitz
#58. Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it; you need to appreciate the failure and use it ...
Dan Millman
#59. Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.
Anthony Marra
#60. Make peace within, and there will be no one who can overcome you. And no one you will wish to overcome.
Dan Millman
#61. I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole
#62. First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?
Thomas Aquinas
#63. Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope ... Now we are together again to make peace.
Black Kettle
#64. Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain
#65. It takes respect, understanding, and forgiveness to make peace.
Debasish Mridha
#68. To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.
Dillon Burroughs
#69. We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.
George R R Martin
#70. You come into this world alone, and you go out of it alone. As soon as you make peace with that, the sooner you learn there's no point being afraid.
Caroline Mitchell
#71. To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.
Benazir Bhutto
#73. The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#74. I would often invent this dream for myself at the edge of sleep, and then it was strange how content it would make me, how it would make peace and consolation flow, and I would close my eyes and float on it into my real dreams which were never so kind [ ... ].
Alice Munro
#75. My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.
A.J. Darkholme
#76. Religions do good when they make peace on earth.
Toba Beta
#77. Sundown- When the sun must make peace with the moon and for a few brief moments, the two touch in mutual friendship and respect. Perfect balance between the light and dark. A time for reflection and for preparation.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.
Kathleen Edwards
#79. You can never make peace with grief, sweetie. You just work out a way to live with the war grief wages in your heart.
Brooke Morgan
#80. To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God,
Thomas Aquinas
#81. Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.
Ho Chi Minh
#82. In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.
Christina Engela
#83. They're the strongest creatures I know and they'd make a formidable ally in the coming war. Perhaps ... just perhaps, Thirrin could make a friend of them and bring them into the struggle. If anyone can do it, she can. She could make peace between night and day, between dark and light if she wanted.
Stuart Hill
#84. Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.
Ariel Meadow Stallings
#85. I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.
Jane McGonigal
#86. Women can build stability. We can make peace.
Hawa Abdi
#87. War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell.
Dean Koontz
#89. Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#90. Make peace with the fear of defeat ... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
Brian Stann
#91. You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand that.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#92. In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#93. The Brotherhood and the Band of Bastards had to go try and make peace. And he had to go look his brother in the face. -
J.R. Ward
#94. You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
#96. You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.
Naomi Watts
#97. Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#98. Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.
Woodrow M. Kroll
#99. [I]n spite of her work as a reference librarian, she discovered that life isn't about knowing all the answers. The best we can do is make peace with our questions, learn who we are, know our strengths, and do the best we can with the gifts we've been given while we're here.
Kate Messner
#100. Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.
Noah
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