This document contains 30 quotes about peace from various notable figures. Some of the key ideas expressed are:
- Peace begins with understanding others rather than through violence. It requires work not just belief.
- True peace comes from within oneself, not from external factors or an absence of conflict.
- Peace is a process achieved through gradual changes in opinions and building new structures over time.
3. Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it
can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
30 Peace Quotes
4. It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must
believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in
it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
30 Peace Quotes
5. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our
wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted
to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
30 Peace Quotes
6. Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
30 Peace Quotes
7. The most valuable possession you can own is
an open heart. The most powerful weapon
you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
30 Peace Quotes
8. Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it
must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson
30 Peace Quotes
9. I think that people want peace so much that
one of these days government had better get
out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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10. You will find peace not by trying to escape
your problems, but by confronting them
courageously. You will find peace not in denial,
but in victory.
J. Donald Walters
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11. Every goal, every action, every thought, every
feeling one experiences, whether it be
consciously or unconsciously known, is an
attempt to increase one's level of peace of
mind.
Sydney Madwed
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12. Peace and justice are two sides of the same
coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
30 Peace Quotes
13. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a
state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,
confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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14. Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes
by.
Maria Schell
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15. Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
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16. It has become impossible to give up the
enterprise of disarmament without
abandoning the whole great adventure of
building up a collective peace system.
Arthur Henderson
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17. Peace has to be created, in order to be
maintained. It will never be achieved by
passivity and quietism.
Dorothy Thompson
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18. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be
achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
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19. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness
to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must
first discipline and control one's own mind. If a
man can control his mind he can find the way
to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue
will naturally come to him.
Buddha
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20. For every minute you remain angry, you give
up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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21. Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by
outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
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22. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with
all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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23. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding
old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
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24. A mind at peace, a mind centered and not
focused on harming others, is stronger than
any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer
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25. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability
to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
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26. Success is peace of mind which is a direct
result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did
your best to become the best you are capable
of becoming.
John Wooden
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27. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his
heart into his work and done his best; but
what he has said or done otherwise shall give
him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
30 Peace Quotes
28. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it
feels more painful than the wound we
suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without
forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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29. There are many things that are essential to
arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the
most important is faith, which cannot be
acquired without prayer.
John Wooden
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30. Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and
in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace
for anything whatsoever, even if your whole
world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales
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31. Peace is more important than all justice; and
peace was not made for the sake of justice,
but justice for the sake of peace.
Martin Luther
30 Peace Quotes