Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

10.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

14.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

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

A Course In Miracles

16.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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

25.

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

Carlos Santana

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

Amis, Martin

29.

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

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

35.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

36.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

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

Lennon, John

38.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

39.

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.

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

42.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

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.

44.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

47.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William