Motivational Quotes

Peace

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

2.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

3.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

4.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

5.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

6.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

7.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

9.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

11.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

12.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

15.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

16.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

17.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

18.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

19.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

22.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

26.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

28.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

29.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

30.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

31.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

34.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

35.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

36.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

37.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

38.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

39.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

40.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

41.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

42.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

44.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

45.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

46.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

48.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

49.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

50.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.