Quotes About Peace

The mere absence of war is not peace.

— John F. Kennedy

Give peace in our time, O Lord.

— The Book of Common Prayer

Could I have but a line, a century hence, crediting a contribution to the cause of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

— General Douglas MacArthur

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace upon any other basis than national independence, peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity, is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased at such a price, it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

— William E. Borah

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

— Isaiah 2:4

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace hath her victories, no less renown’d than war.

— John Milton

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only a peace between equals can last...

— Woodrow Wilson

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

— Cicero

Peach hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

— Proverbs 15:1

Peace is the exhaustion of strife, and is only secure in her triumphs in being in instant readiness for war...

— Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

— Lorraine Hansberry

Peace is necessary to this vast empire.  We need population, not devastation.

— Catherine the Great

People want peace so badly that governments ought to get out of their way and let them have it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If blood be shed, let it be our blood.  Cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. For man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

— Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Quotes About Merit

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.

— Elbert Hubbard

You see, my good wenches, how men of merit are sought after; the underserver may sleep, when the man of action is call’d on.

— William Shakespeare

Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

— Alexander Pope

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Quotes About Kindness

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

— Douglas Jerrod

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

— Aesop

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

— Thomas Carlyle

All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca the Younger

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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Quotes About Inspiration

Trust your gut.

— Barbara Walters

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

— Jean Anouilh

Once people were driven — someday they will be inspired.

— Walter Dill Scott

I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

— Peter De Vries

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.

— Cole Porter

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

— Thomas Alva Edison

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Quotes About Infidelity

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

— Oscar Wilde

It is the fear of middle age in the young, of old age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

— Cyril Connolly

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

— Oscar Wilde

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

— H. L. Mencken

Next to the pleasure of making a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

— William Wycherley

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

— George Bernard Shaw

He has decided to take himself a wife, but he hasn’t decided yet whose...

— Peter De Vries

The trouble with marrying your mistress is that you create a job vacancy.

— Sir James Goldsmith

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal.  There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior.  Unless she is really attractive.

— Bruce Jay Friedman

Extramarital sex is overrated as premarital sex.  And marital sex, come to think of it.

— Simon Gray

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

— Henny Youngman

I am not faithful but I am attached.

— Gunter Grass

There’s nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Infidelities may be forgiven, but never forgotten.

— Madame de Lafayette

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Quotes About Hope

Hope is a delicate suffering.

— Imamu Amiri Baraka

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

— William Shakespeare

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible.  Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

— G. K. Chesterton

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope.  That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon.  They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

— Norman Cousins

While there’s life, there’s hope.

— Terence

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

— Francis Bacon

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

— Alexander Pope

Thou art my hope in the day of evil.

— Jeremiah 17:17

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

— George Savile

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.

— Proverbs 13:12

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Quotes About Faith

Faith is much better than belief.  Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

You can’t solve many of today’s problems by straight linear thinking.  It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.

— Matina Horner

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I could prove God statistically.

— George Gallup

Faith: belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks of knowledge, of things without parallel.

— Ambrose Bierce

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world.  We couldn’t even eat hash with any safety.

— Josh Billings

Not truth, but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

— Havelock Ellis

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

— Hebrews 11:1

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

— Luke 1:37

The Lord is my strength and my shield.

— Psalms 27:1

He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be moved.

— Psalms 62:6

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.

— Exodus 15:2

A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If a man really has strong faith, he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

— H. L. Mencken

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience.  I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

— Madeleine L’Engle

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

— Samuel Butler

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

— Wilson Mizner

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

— George Bernard Shaw (attrib.)

We do not pray to be tempted, but not to be conquered.

— Origen

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

— Margot Asquith

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