Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

2.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

3.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

4.

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

5.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

6.

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

Anton Chekhov

7.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

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

9.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

10.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

15.

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

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

Allen, James

19.

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

20.

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

Thant, U.

21.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

24.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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.

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

31.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

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

42.

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

Milton, John

43.

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

A Course In Miracles

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

45.

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