Peace Quotes

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

~ Neil Armstrong

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

~ Albert Reynolds

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

~ Lester B. Pearson

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

~ Douglas Macarthur

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

~ Peace Pilgrim

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

~ Solomon Ortiz

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She made me read 'War and Peace.' The whole thing. It was amazing, but I had to hide it. You can't walk round reading 'War and Peace' - it's like you're in a comedy sketch and you think you're smart.

~ Peter Capaldi

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

~ Mike Ditka

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

~ Louise L. Hay

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

~ Peace Pilgrim

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

~ Colin Powell

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.

~ Tom Hodgkinson

Give peace a chance.

~ Yitzhak Rabin

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

~ Condoleezza Rice

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

~ Thomas Keating

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

~ Melody Beattie

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.

~ Muhammad Ali

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

~ Mother Teresa

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

~ Armstrong Williams

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

~ Elie Wiesel

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

~ Charles Spurgeon

If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

~ Mattie Stepanek

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

~ Charlie Chaplin

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

~ Trevor Huddleston

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

~ Dave Ramsey

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

~ Frederick Buechner

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

~ José Rizal

My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.

~ Tara Brach

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

~ Marvin Gaye

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

~ Kenichi Fukui

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

~ Elliott Abrams

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński