Peace Quotes
9841 Peace quotes by 3934 unique authors
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest…
— Nelson Mandela
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The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are…
— Lucy Parsons
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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…
— Imelda Staunton
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He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.
— Judith Orloff
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If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.
— Philip Neri
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Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.
— Mother Teresa
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The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
— Guy Finley
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The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.
— Hugh Prather
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Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement…
— David Simon
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Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
— George MacDonald
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Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world…
— George McGovern
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Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can…
— Petra Kelly
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The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
— Kofi Annan
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Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war,…
— Country Joe McDonald
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for…
— Julian of Norwich
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Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing Deity, Peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, Weary bodies refresh and mollify.
— Unknown Author
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the…
— Philip Sidney
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
— Marcel Proust
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No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in…
— Nhat Hanh
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...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…
— Henri Nouwen
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I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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As long as there's hate in your heart, there'll be hate in the world. You can't fight for peace and you cannot capture freedom.
— Charles Manson
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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