logo

Quotes About Peace

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.
~ Ariel Sharon
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
~ Coretta Scott King
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
~ Harriet Tubman
If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
~ Jean Giraudoux
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
~ Martin McGuinness
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.
~ Michio Kaku
It was just enough to sit there without words.
~ Louise Erdrich
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.
~ Frederick Buechner
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
~ Al-Ghazali
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
~ Geronimo
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~ John Muir
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
~ Marvin Gaye
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
~ Thomas Merton
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
~ Sun Tzu
Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
~ Robert E. Lee
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.
~ Louis Armstrong
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
~ Ajahn Brahm
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
~ Dogen
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
~ John of the Cross
Loving one another is half of wisdom.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
~ Petar Dunov
To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.
~ Umar