Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

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.

14.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

16.

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

17.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

Peter McWilliams

22.

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

Bible

23.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

25.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

26.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

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

Carlos Santana

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Kennedy, John F.

33.

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

Nicols, Peter

34.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

35.

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

36.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Thant, U.

40.

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

41.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

Serling, Rod

45.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Frank, Borman

48.

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

49.

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

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