Peacemaker quotes:

Send

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. -- Richard M. Nixon
I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. -- Abraham Lincoln
As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on. -- Virginia McKevitt
A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person. -- Lanza del Vasto
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver. -- Billy Graham
Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if. -- William Shakespeare
Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. -- Nelson Mandela
As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. -- Abraham Lincoln
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. -- Dalai Lama
If we follow the example of Jesus Christ and become true peacemakers, that flood of love will cover the earth as with a blanket. -- Theodore M. Burton
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. -- Khalil Gibran
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. -- Margaret Thatcher
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. -- Marilyn Monroe
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. -- Hermann Goring
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. -- Nelson Mandela
In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my judgement, that kind of judgement is what we want in a president going forward. I want to be a peacemaker. -- Bernie Sanders
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing. -- Vandana Shiva
Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out by itself. Begin your ministry with one blind eye and one deaf ear. -- Charles Spurgeon
... I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it. -- Cory Doctorow
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form. -- David W. Orr
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done. -- Walter Brueggemann
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. -- Mattie Stepanek
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. -- Gwen Stefani
Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it. -- Mike Huckabee
I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why. -- Yuvraj Singh
Silence is a great peacemaker. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror. -- Francis Quarles
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. -- Criss Jami
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker. -- Jimmy Carter
We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations. -- Dan Quayle
You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become. -- Sholom Aleichem
You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it. -- Shannon L. Alder
The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich. -- Frederick Buechner
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca -- Karen Armstrong

Send