Peace Quotes - Page 4

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

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

Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.