Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

2.

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

Carlos Santana

3.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

4.

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

Anton Chekhov

5.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

6.

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

Moore, Marianne

7.

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

Thomson, James

8.

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

9.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Allen, James

17.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

24.

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

Peter McWilliams

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

O'Connor, Basil

27.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

34.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

35.

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

Hardie, James Keir

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

39.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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