Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Marcus Aurelius

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Marcus Aurelius

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Marcus Aurelius

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.

Thomas a Kempis

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Thomas a Kempis

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Thomas a Kempis

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

Samuel Johnson

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Samuel Johnson

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Rufus Wainwright

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Ronald Reagan

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

Ronald Reagan

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

Rodney Crowell

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Robert M. Pirsig

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Todd Akin

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

S. I. Hayakawa

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Ronald Reagan

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

Ronald Reagan

When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

Ronald Reagan

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Ronald Reagan

It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Ron Paul

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Ron Paul

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Ron Paul

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Rumi

Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only no matter how big its membership may be is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Rosa Parks

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Thomas a Kempis

Patience is necessary in this life because so much of life is fraught with adversity. No matter how hard we try, our lives will never be without strife and grief. Thus, we should not strive for a peace that is without temptation, or for a life that never feels adversity. Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.

Thomas A. Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.