Top 100 We Need Peace Quotes
#1. To create a happy world, peace for men will not be enough; we need peace for animals as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. We need Peace,
We need Giving,
We need Love,
We need Unity.
Michael Jackson
#3. A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.
Michael Jackson
#4. We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
Joko Widodo
#5. It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Jesse Jackson
#6. The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
Jeff Sessions
#7. Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.
Rajneesh
#8. Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.
Pete Rozelle
#9. Climate change has been associated so much with a peaceful mentality - obviously peace and love are good, but we need to think about climate as a threat to survival.
Margaret D. Klein
#10. Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.
Stephen R. Prothero
#11. 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
#12. We don't necessarily need to know each other's name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.
Marta Mrotek
#13. I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work ... Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.
Byron Katie
#14. To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
Diane Dreher
#15. We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
Chico Xavier
#16. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?
Howard Zinn
#17. The truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world. It couldn't, plain and simple.
Delia Parr
#19. Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
Dalai Lama
#20. My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
Michel Martelly
#21. We are one evolutionary advancement away from world peace. All we need is the loss of jealousy, which is also the source of greed
Johnny Moscato
#22. Can you just tell them we don't need Jesus, Girl Scout cookies, or whatever the Mormons worship, and let me lie here in peace?
Lish McBride
#23. Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
Richard E. Byrd
#24. Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God's Word--not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#25. If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
Greg Mortenson
#26. Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace ... we just need to declare it.
John Lennon
#27. For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#28. As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.
Peace Pilgrim
#30. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#31. The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#32. Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude - because we are always 'doing' things - we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude
Michael Gurian
#33. The lesson of the way of love is that evil can only be overcome by good. We don't need to reach out and tear down the things that are evil because nothing which is contrary to the law of love can endure.
Peace Pilgrim
#34. Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#35. Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. And God's peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Jesus Christ.
Anonymous
#36. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.
Bernhard Haring
#37. The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.
James F. Amos
#38. Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.
Ray Anyasi
#39. We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
Dennis Kucinich
#40. We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
Dalai Lama
#41. We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Pope Francis
#42. Stop praying for salvation when it is clear,
You are the saviours that we need around here.
Harry Whitewolf
#44. A few nights in the open, my lord, a quiet time and peace. Yes, I admit I am glad. It was good, but it is also good to be alone. We need not hurry. At the end is a tomb. Do we need to rush toward it? It will wait.
John Steinbeck
#45. We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
Bayard Rustin
#46. Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.
Elisabeth Elliot
#47. Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
#48. Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
Brad Pitt
#49. I believe that peace is one of the key reasons we need to take time to reflect. We make far better decisions when we are in a peaceful state.
Laura Lane
#50. Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.
Dalai Lama
#52. Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.
Ian Astbury
#53. Now, at peace, Jordan has few resources but is full of plans. Mohammed Noufal observed with a smile, All we need is Israel's technology, Egypt's workers, Turkey's water, and Saudi Arabia's oil, and I am sure we can build a paradise here.
Mark Kurlansky
#54. Even monsters need peace. Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen
to hear
so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. Then maybe we can stop men like me from happening.
Rene Denfeld
#55. The EU lacks a story. For previous generations, the peace argument was a sufficient. But what story do I tell my 20-year-old son? How do I explain to him that we need the EU for the future?
Margot Wallstrom
#56. 6 Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#57. We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#58. Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing their liberty. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world now agree with us, that we need not have war-that we can have peace.
Harry S. Truman
#59. We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world
Peace Pilgrim
#60. We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
Marianne Williamson
#61. Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?
Mother Teresa
#62. The Peace Panda: Let Us Try To Remember That For Our Very Short Existence On This Planet That We Are Here To Help Humanity And Not Hurt It. May We Help All Those We Meet That Are Suffering And In Despair ... That Even If It's With Prayer, Bring Hope To Those In Need!
Timothy Pina
#63. We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.
Scilla Elworthy
#64. OUR
SOCIETY IS
CONTROLLED BY LAWYERS
AND FINANCIERS
"PROBLEM
MAKERS WE NEED TO EVOME
TO A SOCIETY LEAD BY
CREATORS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS PROBLEM
SOLVERS. SURELY WE WILL
HAVE MORE INGENUITY
COOPERATION AND
PEACE
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#65. Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#66. When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!
Peace Pilgrim
#67. You can legislate many conditions-but you cannot legislate harmony into the hearts of men. To attain industrial peace, we need more than by-laws and compulsory rules.
Clarence Francis
#69. Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.
Dalai Lama
#70. If the United Nations could bring lasting peace, man could say to God, "We do not need You anymore. We have brought peace on earth and have organized humanity in righteousness." All of these schemes are patchwork remedies that a sick and dying world must use while waiting for the Great Physician.
Billy Graham
#71. We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
Anna Lindh
#72. We're not eight kingdoms, but an entire land with one heartbeat. It's why people like you and I need to record our people's stories so we can find those moments when our paths cross, and only then will we know true peace.
Melina Marchetta
#73. Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try for harmony Someday we will live in peace
Country Joe McDonald
#74. This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.
Melody Beattie
#76. Of course it's for you. But it's also so those little diseased children don't become dracula snacks. We need to get them safe so they can be sick and die in peace.
Blake Crouch
#77. What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#78. The emergence of new conflicts mean, that we will need to be more creative, in the use of our diplomatic tools. The demands for peace-keeping forces is likely to grow, and we need to increasingly adapt our forces to that challenge.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#79. We don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
Mother Teresa
#80. Healing is that place where we step into 20 seconds of insane courage because we need to either close that door or hold it open. Regardless of the outcome, the truth is what sets you free never the fear of not knowing.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.
Nick Vujicic
#83. We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
#84. But the truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world? It couldn't, plan and simple.
Delia Parr
#85. The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
Billy Graham
#86. What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
Chris Hani
#88. We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Mother Teresa
#89. In threatening times like these, what good is a peace that demands a controlled environment? We need a peace of heart and mind to see us through the storm when our environment goes berserk.
George Foster
#90. We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.
Surya Das
#91. In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
Jack Kornfield
#92. We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
#93. Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy.
Mother Teresa
#94. You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Ani DiFranco
#95. The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Wayne Shorter
#96. Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost
all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
A. Powell Davies
#97. The world was full of lies. And people keep telling us we need them, all in the name of peace. But the peace we got was poison.
Steven Erikson
#98. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
Dalai Lama
#99. Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
Serj Tankian
#100. Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that 'no' for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn't feel the need to feel guilty.
Forrest Curran
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