Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

2.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

4.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

5.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

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

Allen, James

7.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

8.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

9.

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

Nicols, Peter

10.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

11.

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

12.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

13.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

14.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

15.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

18.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

21.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

22.

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

23.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

24.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

25.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

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

A Course In Miracles

29.

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.

30.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

34.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

35.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

38.

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

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas