Quotes about peace

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for.

Abraham Lincoln

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Nelson Mandela

All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.

14th Dalai Lama

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Billy Graham

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

Marcus Aurelius

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

Margaret Thatcher

I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

Eleanor Roosevelt