Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Washington, George

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Unesco

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Steiner, George

12.

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

Bible

13.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

14.

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.

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

18.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

19.

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

O'Connor, Basil

20.

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

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

23.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

24.

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

25.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

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

A Course In Miracles

28.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Hardie, James Keir

31.

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

32.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

33.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

34.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

35.

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

36.

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

Anton Chekhov

37.

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

38.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

39.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

41.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

42.

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

Thomson, James

43.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

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

48.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

49.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

50.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger