Top 100 Peace Is Quotes
#2. When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Helen Schucman
#3. The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Boris Trajkovski
#5. ...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#6. Peace is when the heart is no longer in duality, when the struggle within has been resolved ... A voice has been calling out: "What you are looking for is within you. Your truth is within you, your peace is within you ... "
Prem Rawat
#7. Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
#8. Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
Ramana Maharshi
#9. Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.
Charles James Fox
#10. It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
Mark Kurlansky
#12. An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
J. F. C. Fuller
#13. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. There is no path toward love except by practicing love. War will always produce more war. Violence can never bring about true peace.
Richard Rohr
#14. Peace is an eternal journey we begin in the mind by changing our thoughts so that we can fill the world with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#15. The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.
William Shakespeare
#16. Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.
Jo Walton
#17. If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.
Tsem Tulku
#18. The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has never before found herself in such dire straits.
Nostradamus
#20. Peace is not only the absence of war, but the presence of harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#21. any thought that gives you peace is a positive thought. The more you fill your mind with positive thoughts, the better your state of mind will be. And that naturally results in better physical health.
Om Swami
#22. A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.
Jerry Pournelle
#26. To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#27. This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.
Prem Rawat
#29. 'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.
Bill Mauldin
#30. Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.
William Trevor
#31. Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#32. It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
Gerald Jampolsky
#33. As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
John Donne
#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
#36. If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
Alan Cohen
#37. The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.
Morihei Ueshiba
#38. Peace is not the absence of intolerance
Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Peace is a time when people can tell each other their real names
Chris Cleave
#40. Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#42. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
Wayne W. Dyer
#43. Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#45. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette Rankin
#46. Peace is not a dream; it is hard work, and there is nothing naive, glamorous or simplistic about it.
Oscar Arias
#47. I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
Don Meyer
#48. Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Peace is not a goal to achieve; peace is the way we desire to live.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.
Richard M. Nixon
#51. 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.
[Address before the United Nations, September 20 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#52. I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.
Muhammad Yunus
#53. The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#54. I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.
Jane Addams
#55. Peace is this moment without judgment. That is all. This moment in the Heart-space Where everything that is is welcome.
Dorothy Hunt
#56. Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.
Toba Beta
#58. Peace is not only the purpose of life; it is also the pathway of life
Debasish Mridha
#60. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.
Veronica Roth
#61. Knowing peace is havcing a stillness in your heart while in the middle of chaos
Judy Azar LeBlanc
#63. If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality, we will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#64. Pain is all I know." He murmured.
"Peace is all I want
Dean Koontz
#65. Peace is not something to say but something to do.
Dominique Pire
#66. The world will continue to change dramatically, but fighting and war can destroy us utterly. What we need now are techniques of harmony, not those of contention. The Art of Peace is required, not the Art of War.
Morihei Ueshiba
#67. Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it's always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed 'n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love 'n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?
Rachael Wade
#68. The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
Nikki Rowe
#69. Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
Gioconda Belli
#70. Sometimes, and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
Tony Blair
#71. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
who's hungry and where their mouth is or
who's out of work and where the job is or
who's broke and where the money is or
who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.
Woody Guthrie
#72. No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin
victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
John Ruskin
#75. Inner peace is accomplished by understanding and accepting the inevitable contradictions of life - the pain and pleasure, success and failure, joy and sorrow, births and deaths. Problems can teach us to be gracious, humble, and patient.
Richard Carlson
#76. The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body complex) while bliss is the nature of the Self (the Soul).
Dada Bhagwan
#78. A bad peace is worse than war.
Tacitus
#79. Peace is a butterfly
Flying flower to flower
With a song in her heart
But a great love for the beauty
With a great purpose and duty.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for ...
Abraham Lincoln
#81. Most people think that once they've found their purpose and the power to practice it, they'll finally be at peace. Actually, though, it's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power. Peace is the first step and the final lesson we all need to learn.
Martha Beck
#82. My demons hunt my sleep. They make it impossible to know what peace is.
Tabatha Vargo
#83. If life is a magnificent journey, then peace is the way and happiness is the destination.
Debasish Mridha
#84. World peace is one project that we have to do together.
Yoko Ono
#85. The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.
Neale Donald Walsch
#86. Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.
Kamal Ravikant
#87. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Maria Montessori
#88. No, the only way to peace is through darkness, the black door, through the cellar to the money.
Mav Skye
#89. Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
John Bonifaz
#90. Peace is neither taken nor given, only recognized within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.
Pope Paul VI
#94. As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, "Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
Sheryl Sandberg
#95. The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
Maxine Hong Kingston
#96. The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
Mother Teresa
#97. The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. More dangerous than guns or bombs are hatred, lack of compassion, and lack of respect for the rights of others. As long as hatred dwells in the human mind, real peace is impossible.
Dalai Lama XIV
#100. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
Petra Kelly
