Best peace & seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

World Children Littles Made War Seems Might Able Peace Progress Praying Promise Stupidity Repetition Crawling

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.”

Knows War Seems Games Peace Chance Virtue Dangerous Serious Exercise Mountain Substitutes Pacifist

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.”

Light Seems Peace Feet Shining Idealism Summit

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music.”

Seems Earth Lasts Found Peace Capable Seconds Old Time

Book:Schindler's List

Source: Schindler's List

“It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.”

World Humans Kind Self Whole Seems Might Spirit Humanity Peace Imagination Salvation Affection Deeper Worthy Abstraction Human Imagination

Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”

People War Seems Peace Concerned Intervention

Book:In the Words of Nelson Mandela

Source: In the Words of Nelson Mandela

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”

Giving Littles Seems Together Peace Air Wind Flower Clouds Little Things Teamwork Perfume Meadows

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

“Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.”

Love Stills Seems Fall Peace Our Lives Worst Eternal God Love Hardship Falling Apart Finding Peace Eternal Love Overcoming Hardship

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

Source: The courage to be happy

“It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.”

Long Seems Peace Struggle Clear Share Planets Diversity Divides Brotherhood Ubuntu Unity In Diversity

Author:Alice Walker

“I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.”

World Firsts Believe Seems Turns Peace Lessons Solutions Roots Lessons To Be Learned

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.”

Ifs Self Seems Remember Spirit Peace Interest Common Destiny Share Harmony Equality Bitterness Remember When Self Interest Ubuntu

Book:Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches

Source: Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches

“So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.”

Needs War Helping Seems Moving Peace Goal Draws Inevitable Defining Persevere Manageable

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.”

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