Peace Quotes

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

You don't make peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

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

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.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

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

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.