Motivational Quotes

Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- Hecht, Ben

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

2.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

3.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

4.

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

Hubbard, Kin

5.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

6.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Buddha

10.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

O'Connor, Basil

15.

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

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

21.

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

Bible

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

27.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

33.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

34.

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

Wiesel, Elie

35.

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.

36.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

37.

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

A Course In Miracles

38.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

41.

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

42.

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

Thant, U.

43.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

44.

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

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

Thomson, James

46.

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

Hardie, James Keir

47.

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

48.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

49.

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

50.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI