Peace With Others Quotes

• Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Peace, Creating, Space

  "Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images". Book edited by Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, 2000.

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• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Inspiration, Humanity

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

  Mother Teresa

  Motivational, Family, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.329, Image

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• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Yoga, Inspiration

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• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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

  John Lennon

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Guitar Player, August 01, 2004.

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Firsts, Tranquility

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• 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

  Peace, World, Moral

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

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• Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Community, Inner Peace

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• Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.

  Gioconda Belli

  Rights, Being At Peace, Persons

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• We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Together, Strange

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, Understanding, Together

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• If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Hate, Ubuntu

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• I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Unconditional Love

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Kindness, Compassion

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.22, Sounds True

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• Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

  John Lennon

  Peace, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

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• We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Catholic, Humanity

  Thomas Merton (1994). “Ascent To Truth”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

  William Howard Taft

  Peace, Strong, Mean

  William Howard Taft (1910). “Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910”

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• There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Country, Stars, Jealous

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