Achieving Peace Quotes:

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Inner Peace And Happiness, International Peace Day

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

source: Attributed to Gladstone in The National Elementary Principal, Volume 28, 1948.

topic: Love, Life, Peace, Peace Love, Peace And Love

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Success, Peace, Freedom, Being At Peace, Achieving Peace

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

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership, Make Peace Not War, International Peace Day

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

- Malcolm X

topic: Peace, Freedom, Inspiration, Separate Peace, July 4th 1776

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

- John Lennon

topic: Peace, Light, Giving, Peace Love, Peace And Love

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

- John Lennon

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Imagine That, Peace Love

Imagine all the people living life in peace...

- John Lennon

source: Song: Imagine, Album: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

topic: Live Life, People, Imagine, Make Love Not War, Make Peace Not War

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Death, Wisdom, Peace, Achieving Peace, Funerals And Death

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Freedom, Social Revolution, American Revolution

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Motivational, Peace, Self Esteem, Outer Worlds, Peacefulness

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, War, Mean, Maintaining Peace, Peacefulness

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Peace, War, Make Peace Not War, True Peace

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

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Workout, Peace, War, Peace And Harmony, Peace Harmony

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Make Peace Not War, Inspirational Science

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Peace, Freedom, War, Great War, Fighting For Freedom

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Make Peace Not War, Lack Of Understanding

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Positive, Happiness, Attitude, Money Isn't Everything, Success Happiness

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Peace, Military, Positive Attitude, Quaker, Peacefulness

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: War, Hands, India, Business Woman, Can't Trust Anyone

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Life, Friendship, Peace, Friends And Enemies, Cultural Differences

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

- George Washington

topic: Justice, Religion, Doe, Good Faith, Peace And Harmony

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

- George Harrison

topic: Peace, Hippie, Waiting, Being At Peace, Achieving Peace

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

topic: Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive, Mediators, Alcoholics Anonymous

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

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Love, Peace, War, Make Peace Not War, International Peace Day

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

- Baruch Spinoza

source: "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

topic: Wisdom, Peace, War, International Peace, Achieving Peace

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.194

topic: Life, Patience, Peace, Peace Sign, Achieving Peace

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Peace, Truth, Yoga, International Peace Day, Non Violence

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

topic: Peace, Believe, Belief, International Relations, Calm And Peace

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

- Petrarch

source: "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

topic: Forgiveness, Peace, Anger, Peacekeeping, Achieving Peace

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Peace, Yoga, Inspiration, Special Needs, Special Needs Children

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A. J. Muste

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

topic: Peace, Way, International Peace Day, Peacekeeping, Peace Sign

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Peace, Men, Relaxation, Achieving Peace

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Hammerstein II

topic: Peace, Work, Ubuntu, Achieving Peace

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

- Barack Obama

source: Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

topic: Peace, Rights, Dignity, True Peace, International Peace Day

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Winning, Justice, Hatred, Justice And Love, Descending

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

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Love Freedom, True Peace

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Hope, Make Love Not War, Dreamy

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

- John Lennon

topic: Teamwork, World, Someday, Dreamy, Imagine That

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Inspiring, Peace, Military, Journey Of A Thousand Miles, International Peace Day

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspiring, Karma, Peace, Inner Peace And Happiness, Spiritual Peace

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

- Thomas Merton

topic: Sacrifice, Demand, Heroic, Love Sacrifice, Achieving Peace

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.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Peace, Buddhist, Men, Spiritual Enlightenment, Mind Control

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.

- Gerald Jampolsky

source: Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.58, Celestial Arts

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Goodbye, Forgive Yourself, Inner Happiness

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.

- Etty Hillesum

source: Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

topic: Peace, World, Moral, True Peace, Moral Duty

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

- Ely Culbertson

source: Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston

topic: Winning, Usa, United States, Achieving Peace

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

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Peace, Giving, People, Pray For Peace, Achieving Peace

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

- Sophie Kerr

topic: Peace, War, Pageantry, Achieving Peace

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams