Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Peace

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

10.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

11.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

12.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

14.

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

Anton Chekhov

15.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

17.

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

Truman, Harry S

18.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

19.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

20.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

22.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

26.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

27.

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

28.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

29.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

30.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

31.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

33.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

34.

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

Amis, Martin

35.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

36.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

40.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

41.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

42.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

43.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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.

47.

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

Nicols, Peter

48.

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

Thomas a Kempis

49.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

50.

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