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

1.

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

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Amis, Martin

4.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

5.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

6.

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

Milton, John

7.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

13.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

17.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

20.

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

21.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

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

O'Connor, Basil

25.

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

26.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

27.

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

Anton Chekhov

28.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

29.

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

A Course In Miracles

30.

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

Dayan, Moshe

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

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

33.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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.

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

38.

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

Hardie, James Keir

39.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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

41.

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

Serling, Rod

42.

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

Nicols, Peter

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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.

45.

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

Thant, U.

46.

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

47.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

48.

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

Steiner, George

49.

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

Muste, A. J.

50.

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