Peace and Power Quotes

Top 10 Best Peace and Power Quotes:

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
- 2 Corinthians 12:9

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
- Martin Luther King

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
- Booker T. Washington

"A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."
- Proverbs 15:1

"People with clenched fists cannot shake hands."
- Indira Gandhi

"In quiet and trust you shall find your strength."
- Isaiah 30:15

"Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Teresa

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
- Nelson Mandela

More Peace and Power Quotes:

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."
- Thomas Merton

"You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."
- J. Donald Walters

"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
- Thomas Paine

"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

"Peace is its own reward."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
- William Ellery Channing

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."
- Rosa Parks

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower. The rose is merely the evidence of the vitality of the root."
- Woodrow Wilson

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
- Ronald Reagan

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."
- Dorothy Day

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus

"For 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

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