World Peace Quotes – Realistic Yet Hopeful
The very best quotes about world peace are realistic, yet still hopeful.
Peace In The World
World peace is a topic that is on many people’s minds of all nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. What do you think about world peace? Is it attainable or something we should work toward every day without ever expecting to actually achieve it?
World peace is a topic that has been on the mind of humanity for as long as we’ve had language.
We’ve long sought to understand what it means and how we can achieve it. For centuries, people have sought to unify individuals and cultures to share a peaceful coexistence. They’ve looked for ways to ensure the safety of their children and loved ones from other humans and from themselves.
There is no answer that fits all or even most situations, and that is why we can’t conclude that world peace is ever attainable.
We can however, strive to improve the situation every day and hope for the best tomorrow.
Some of the world’s most intriguing minds have plenty to say on the concept of world peace, as you will see in the following inspiring and hopeful quotes:
World Peace Quotes
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles, and it must be taken one step at a time.” Lyndon B. Johnson
“If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” Desmond Tutu
“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.” Dalai Lama
“I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.” Malala Yousafzai
“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.” William Wilberforce
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.” John Lennon
“Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” Aristotle
“Peace is not absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” Ronald Reagan
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” John F. Kennedy
“A bad peace is even worse than war.” Tacitus
“We make war that we may live in peace.” Aristotle
Peace on Earth Quotes
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
“The purpose of all wars, is peace.” Saint Augustine
“Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.” Benazir Bhutto
“People always make war when they say they love peace.” D. H. Lawrence
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” Dalai Lama
“As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it.” Corazon Aquino
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” Georges Clemenceau
“For peace to reign on earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.” Immanuel Kant
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down.” Malcolm X
It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the state of the world right now.
Crime seems to be rampant, fear and anxiety at all time highs, and the threat of terrorism is looming constantly on everyone’s mind. Even in more personal matters, we feel like we don’t have enough time for our loved ones. We rush through life like a hamster on a wheel – continuously moving but never getting anywhere.
We can’t control what happens on a global scale, and we can’t stop the people around us from doing terrible things. But we do have complete and total power over our own lives. We don’t have to let these events shape who we are or how we live – instead, we can choose inner peace.
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