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Quotes About Peace

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
~ Martin Sheen
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
~ Charles Glover Barkla
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
~ George Whitefield
It's good to shut up sometimes.
~ Marcel Marceau
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
~ Earl Weaver
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
~ Feisal Abdul Rauf
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
~ Anna Lindh
Umpires are supposed to be non-confrontational - they're supposed to uphold the peace on the baseball field.
~ Dave Martinez
The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
~ Ellen Key
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.
~ Brianna Keilar
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
~ Maggie Smith
If I become president, I want to make sure that we shouldn't live in fear. We should all be one people. We should all enjoy differences of opinion without getting upset.
~ Tan Cheng Bock
The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.
~ Joyce Meyer
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
~ Bernice King
I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
~ Candy Crowley
My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
~ Jake Shears
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
~ Ian Frazier
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
~ Victoria Osteen
I don't want people to feel like I'm upset or bitter with C-Webb or the University of Michigan. I love them both.
~ Jalen Rose
As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.
~ Barack Obama