Quotes About Peace

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

Is some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

It is wealth to be content.

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed, for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. ... One of these days is Yesterday ... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Be, therefore, not anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.