Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

2.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

3.

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

4.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

5.

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

Truman, Harry S

6.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

Moore, Marianne

9.

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

Bible

10.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

11.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

16.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

18.

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

19.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

20.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Unesco

24.

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

Thant, U.

25.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

26.

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

Lennon, John

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.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

29.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

31.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

33.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

39.

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

Wiesel, Elie

40.

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

Proverb, Turkish

41.

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

42.

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

Muste, A. J.

43.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

44.

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.

45.

If you want peace work for justice.