Quotes for a Culture of Peace

Quotes For Living a Life of Compassion

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
-- Thomas Paine

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

-- Rosa Parks

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
-- Gregory Peck

You make a living by what you earn, but you make a life by what you give.
-- Lowell Perry
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
--Albert Pike
"Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me."
-- Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer, 1738
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
-- Hugh Prather
"If you think the efforts of one individual will be nothing, then you have never been to bed with a mosquito".
~ Betty Reese
There is no greater calling than to serve your Brother. And, no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
-- Walter Reuther

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
-- Will Rogers

"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."
-- Shalom Rokeach

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-- J. K. Rowling
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
-- Rumi
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
- Larry Scherwitz

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.
-- E.F. Schumacher

"A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
-- Haile Selassie
"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"
-- Seneca
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
-- Seneca
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
-- Beverly Sills
"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
-- Swami Sivanada
Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns … present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest.
-- Sophocles (496-406BC)
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
-- Freya Stark

"I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?"
-- Barbra Streisand

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
-- Anne Sophie Swetchine
"When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward."
-- Swedish proverb.
May you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift

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