Top 1200 Peace And Tolerance Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

In the spirit of tolerance, you should allow us to execute homosexuals.

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

I always say that tolerance doesn't depend on a country, because there is hate everywhere.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.

We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.

The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

Promoting tolerance and human dignity is one of mankind's unfinished challenges.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.