Quotes from Shimon Peres
Whoever of you love life and desire to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.
— Shimon Peres
Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.
— Shimon Peres
For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
— Shimon Peres
We should use our imagination more than our memory.
— Shimon Peres
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
— Shimon Peres
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
— Shimon Peres
We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.
— Shimon Peres
The tools of his trade included faith, perseverance, resilience, and the ability to learn—to change and to grow. But his greatest tool of all, always, was hope.
— Shimon Peres
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
— Shimon Peres
What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.
— Shimon Peres
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.
— Shimon Peres
I have one weakness. I don't like vacations. I like to work.
— Shimon Peres