Achieving Peace Quotes - Page 3

• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Practice

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

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Able

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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?

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Umpires, Judging

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• 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.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Peace, Attitude

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Peace, Patriotic, President

  Harry S. Truman (2003). “Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops”, p.106, SIU Press

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

  Gerry Adams

  Peace, War, Humanity

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Government

  TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959.

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• 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.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Giving, Humanity

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• 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.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Negative

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

  Martin Luther

  Memorial Day, Peace, Ubuntu

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• 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

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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

  Peace Pilgrim

  Family, Self, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3610, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Peace, Upset

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• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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

  Thomas Mann

  Peace, War, Military

  "This I Believe" with Edward R. Murrow, 1951.

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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

  Francis of Assisi

  Peace, Passion, Heart

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

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Election

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

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Differences, Together

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• Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, People, Serenity

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