Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Allen, James

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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.

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

15.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

17.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

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

Muste, A. J.

20.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

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

Thomson, James

25.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

31.

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

32.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

33.

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

34.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

35.

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

Proverb, Turkish

36.

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

37.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

38.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

39.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

41.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

42.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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

Nicols, Peter

46.

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.

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

50.

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