Best 6010 quotes in «peace quotes» category

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

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

For a just and lasting peace, here is my solemn pledge to you: by dedication and patience we will continue, as long as I remain your President, to work for this simple - this single - this exclusive goal.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

For every man, peace of soul is precious.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

Forgiveness is an inner correction that lightens the heart. It is for our peace of mind first. Being at peace, we will now have peace to give to others, and this is the most permanent and valuable gift we can possibly give.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a persons soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.

For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.

Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'

Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!

Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

God accepts the risk of appearing to be unjust. God looks unjust, but he is not. He asks more from those to whom he gives more. They are not greater or better, they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.