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Quotes About Peace

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
~ King George V
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
~ Heber J. Grant
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.
~ Josh Billings
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
~ Richard Cobden
Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?
~ Vladimir Putin
Love's in need of love today...don't delay...send yours in right away
~ Stevie Wonder
The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.
~ S. R. Nathan
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
~ Alexander MacLaren
The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.
~ Sebastian Stan
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
~ Corrie Ten Boom
The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
~ Etty Hillesum
As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
~ M. C. Escher
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
~ Joseph Heller
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
~ Gaston Bachelard
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
~ T. S. Eliot
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.
~ Nhat Hanh
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace
~ Irene Dunne
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
~ Jiang Qing