Achieving Peace Quotes

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of liberty. If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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

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.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

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

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace is our gift to each other.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions by many people in many countries. It is an attitude, a way of life, a way of solving problems and resolving conflicts. It cannot be forced on the smallest nation or enforced by the largest. It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

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.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.