Top 100 Peace Is When Quotes
#1. The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
#3. Peace is when we look upon the world together.
A.D. Posey
#4. The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Lisa Gardner
#5. Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
Amrita Pritam
#7. 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
#8. 'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.
Bill Mauldin
#9. You think that peace means that no one will fight. True peace is when you create peace within yourself leaving no one to fight.
Debasish Mridha
#10. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.
Robin Hobb
#11. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.
Ronald Reagan
#13. Knowing when you should weigh up your options, remain calm and not take everything at face value has certain benefits
Ending the day with with a peaceful soul is one...
Virginia Alison
#14. When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. Outwardly nature is busy and restless, inwardly she is all silence and peace. She has toil on one side and leisure on the other. You see her bondage only when you see her from without, but within her heart is a limitless beauty.
Rabindranath Tagore
#16. In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.
Sakyong Mipham
#17. Enough. When science has spoken, it is for us to hold our peace. -Lidenbrock
Jules Verne
#18. When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.
Rodney King
#19. When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
Wayne W. Dyer
#20. If it is peace you seek then you need only turn and walk away. Leave."
"To leave here is to arrive elsewhere. I cannot retreat from disorder, for it shall surely follow. Peace must be asserted where one finds oneself. Only when discord is resolved will there be peace.
Steven Erikson
#21. Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.
Arun Manilal Gandhi
#22. The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me ... since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.
Alice James
#23. I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in.
John Knowles
#24. When our fears and anxiety prevent sleep, we can pray instead of scanning Google. We can ask for guidance from the Lord when we are confronted with possible problems. He is faithful to answer and grant peace for the night. Father,
Sandra Peoples
#25. There is a transcendent awareness, a Big Mind, a Big Heart, present and readily accessible to each and every one of us. When we realize it, we see it is the source of true peace, happiness, satisfaction, courage and joy.
Dennis Merzel
#26. I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.
Ronald Reagan
#27. Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
Therese Of Lisieux
#28. When people say, "Don't just sit there, do something," they're urging you to act. But if the quality of your being is poor - if you don't have enough peace, understanding, and equanimity, if you still have a lot of anger and worries - then your actions will also be poor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. The prophecy is here: When the storm calms, when rain and fire again leave the country in peace, the world will no longer be the world, but something better.
Subcomandante Marcos
#30. There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
A. C. Benson
#31. When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.
Joel Berg
#32. Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.
Evander Holyfield
#33. The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
Jim Harrison
#34. There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
Ann Voskamp
#35. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
Criss Jami
#36. When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.
Winston S. Churchill
#37. Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
Jacques Derrida
#38. No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#39. When we will learn to see
There is no you and me but only we
Then in this world peace will be.
Debasish Mridha
#40. When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.
Eileen Caddy
#41. Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.
Charles Brent
#42. When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
Molly Friedenfeld
#43. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
Martin McGuinness
#44. Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
D.H. Lawrence
#46. In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
Jimmy Carter
#47. Peace is a fresh flower;
when it's freshness and beauty touches heart,
it will last forever.
Debasish Mridha
#48. His mate is the light that keeps that darkness at bay. She fills the hole that has been growing ever larger in his soul. When the bond is completed between mates, their very souls merge and the male will be able to leash the darker part of his nature and at last be at peace with his wolf.
Quinn Loftis
#49. There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#50. When you live from the inside out, it doesn't matter how chaotic the the world around you is. You're at peace with yourself and walk with your own pace.
Assegid Habtewold
#51. When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
Beverly LaHaye
#52. Rest is in Him alone. Man knows no peace in the world; but he has no disturbance when he is with God.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#53. When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.
Michelle Branch
#54. France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#55. The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
Criss Jami
#56. When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
Leonardo Boff
#57. Tell me the sort of agreement that the United Nations will reach with respect to the world's petroleum reserves when the war is over," Ickes proclaimed, "and I will undertake to analyze the durability of the peace that is to come.
William Manchester
#58. When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.
Henri Nouwen
#59. How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?
Cliff Richard
#60. Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
Walker Percy
#61. Often the same people who ask where God was following a disaster thanklessly refuse to worship and honor Him for years of peace and calmness. They disregard God in good times, yet think He is obligated to provide help when bad times come.
Anonymous
#62. THIRTEEN GREAT ICONS FELL FROM THE SKY, WHEN THEY CAME ALIVE, SIX CITIES DIED. REMEMBER 6/6. THE PROJECTS ARE SLAVERY. WE ARE NOT FREE. SILENCE IS NOT PEACE. REMEMBER THE DAY. DEATH TO THE SYMPAS, DEATH TO THE LORDS. DESTROY THE ICONS. REMEMBER.
Margaret Stohl
#63. True peaceful state is that when one has inner peace amidst total lack of peace on the outside. Bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst external turmoil is 'tested' samadhi.
Dada Bhagwan
#64. God has given us peace in our pain. He covers us all the time. Even when we are out of control, he is still there.
Max Lucado
#65. I call upon the leaders of all nations to work for peace, even when the risks seem high. I call upon Christians to pray and work for peace in whatever constructive ways are open to them. I do not believe this is only a political issue; it is a moral one as well.
Billy Graham
#66. The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered ...
Leo Tolstoy
#67. When you kick others at their weak point, time is timing a painful kick at your strong point
Shubha Vilas
#68. Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!
Daniel Horan
#69. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.
Deepak Chopra
#70. Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#71. Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.
Wick Allison
#72. Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
John Cage
#73. That scripture did also tear and rend my soul in the midst of these distractions, The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Isa. lvii. 20, 21.
John Bunyan
#74. She looks like she's at peace," I hear, over and over. Or "She looks just like herself, don't she?" Neither one of these is true. She looks like an illustration in a book, two-dimensional, when she ought to be leaping off the page. When
Jodi Picoult
#75. For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.
Jimmy Carter
#76. You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
John Lennon
#78. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
Epicurus
#79. Feed yourself with the food of wisdom.
Wisdom is recognised by joy and peace.
When you allow your ways to be light you go high.
When your path supports heaviness it weighs you down.
Raphael Zernoff
#80. ...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
#81. When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
Therese Of Lisieux
#82. There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained when we give them to others.
John Wooden
#83. When we are anxious about what is going to happen next, we are not staying in our now!
Evinda Lepins
#84. When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#85. In the end when the last curtain falls, if all you have is gold ... then you truly have nothing at all!
Timothy Pina
#86. You will never find peace when the need you cling to is not the want you desire. But when does a want become a need ... when it is all you think about?
Shannon L. Alder
#87. Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.
John Boyne
#88. Christian joy isn't always laughing, always having a good, hilarious time. Christian joy is the deep, settled peace that comes to live within your heart when you know that the really important things are all right.
David Jeremiah
#89. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#90. It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.
Todd Stocker
#91. When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'
Robby Krieger
#92. The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.
John Dominic Crossan
#93. Great Spirit
when we come singing.
When we face the sunset
the last song, may it be,
without shame, singing
"It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty!"
Evelyn Eaton
#94. You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?
Jackson Browne
#95. When a cupboard is full to overflowing and the doors are opened up, that which is within comes tumbling out and nothing can stop it. When floodgates are opened, the water rushes forth with tremendous power and force, carrying all before it. So with the
Eileen Caddy
#96. It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
John Galsworthy
#97. When your humanity gets put on display in these awkward expressions, the only path to peace in your relationship is forgiveness.
Bill Farrel
#98. For the Christian tradition, the heart's true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled and our feet are planted in a place we know to be holy ground.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#99. When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#100. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Stephen Covey
