Peaceful World Quotes - Page 2

• We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiveness, Peace, Attitude

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Love, Life, Time

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

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

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, People, Serenity

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Workout, Peace, War

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Truth, Yoga

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• By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

  James Forrestal

  Love, Leadership, Country

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• Peace is our gift to each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Giving, Humanity

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• 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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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

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

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• Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.

  Kofi Annan

  Helping Others, Numbers, Volunteer

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• If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

  Dan Millman

  Kindness, Peaceful, World

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.108, New World Library

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• War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

  Ron Kovic

  War, Peaceful, Answers

  "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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• The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

  Bernie Sanders

  Giving Up, Struggle, Kids

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from May 14, 2015

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• Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Compassion, Peaceful

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• Every thought, every word, and every action that adds to the positive and the wholesome is a contribution to peace. Each and every one of us is capable of making such a contribution. Let us join hands to try to create a peaceful world where we can sleep in security and wake in happiness.

  Aung San

  Sleep, Hands, Peaceful

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• I better quit my talking 'cause I told you all I know But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done, That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, Work, Men

  Song: The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done

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• One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Drama, People, Peaceful

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• I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

  James Wolfensohn

  Children, Peaceful, Development

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• We need a more peaceful world, growing out of more peaceful families and neighborhoods and communities. To secure and cultivate such peace, "we must love others, even our enemies as well as our friends"

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Peace, Community

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Change, Believe, Order

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 05, 1991.

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