Monday, November 21, 2011

Quotes on ‘PEACE’



All of us want peace. We struggle for peace. At times, it becomes the most important thing in our life. We are ready to pay anything to get peace of mind. The following quotes on ‘peace’ are very meaningful. Reading them, you’ll come to know about the  ways and means of peace. Read….
- N.Ganeshan

Quotes on ‘Peace’

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

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

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad Ali

Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

John Lennon

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

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

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Wayne Dyer

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt Cobain

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie Chaplin

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
Thomas Merton

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.

Kin Hubbard

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Chanakya

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
Marianne Williamson

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. 
George Harrison 

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. 
Richard Pryor 

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
Marianne Williamson

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Gandhi

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


Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin


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