Dalai Lama Quotes

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

No one is really working for peace unless he is working primarily for the restoration of wisdom.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

Peace is never a perfect achievement.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

We are living in a time of many wars. The call for peace must be shouted. Peace sometimes gives the impression of being quiet, but it is never quiet. Peace if always proactive and dynamic.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace.