Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Hardie, James Keir

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

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

Wiesel, Elie

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

25.

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

Dayan, Moshe

26.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

27.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

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

A Course In Miracles

32.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

33.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Thomson, James

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

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.