Peace Quotes

"Peace begins with a smile"

"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

"The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"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, Statesman

"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace"

Petrarch, Poet

"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke"

Michael Ignatieff, Politician

"The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men"

Herbert Hoover, President

"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place"

George W. Bush, President

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman"

George W. Bush, President

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace"

George W. Bush, President

"We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray"

George W. Bush, President

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"To awake from death is to die in peace"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world"

Barack Obama, President

"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Don't tell me peace has broken out"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Peace is a natural effect of trade"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity"

Grover Cleveland, President

"I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"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, Activist

"Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

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