Peaceful Quotes

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past, Poor, Wars

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor, Wars, Carving

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

Revolution, Impossible, Inevitable

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Respect, Someone, Him

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln

Bullets, Ballots, Rightful

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

Give, Victory, Necessary

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

Human, Another, Wishes

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

Peace, Means, Ability

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Successful, Mind

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Free, Sense

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Death, Transition

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Oliver Tambo

Freedom, Happy, Fight

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.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Peace, War, Mind

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men, War, Thought

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Strength, Silence

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra

Peace, Time, Important

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
Pope John XXIII

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.
Nhat Hanh

Life, Work, Peace

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart

God, Heart, Wants

Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James

Experience, Deep

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Human, Night

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Alanis Morissette

Spiritual, Angry, Point

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush

Free, Nations, Develop

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
Henry Rollins

Chance, Makes, Tolerance

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric Hoffer

Nation, Perhaps, Seed

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

Peace, Individual, Behind

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller

Peace, Rarely, Denied

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Alanis Morissette

Love, Success, Thinking

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