Motivational Quotes

Peace

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Kempis, Thomas

2.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

3.

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

4.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

5.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

6.

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.

Brahmanada, Swami

7.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

8.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

9.

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

10.

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

Dayan, Moshe

11.

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

12.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

14.

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

Amis, Martin

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Anton Chekhov

17.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

18.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

20.

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

Allen, James

21.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

22.

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

23.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

27.

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

Bible

28.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

32.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

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

Lennon, John

38.

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

Steiner, George

39.

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.

40.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

41.

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.

42.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

43.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

45.

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

46.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

47.

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

Unesco

48.

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

49.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt