Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Allen, James

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

13.

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

O'Connor, Basil

14.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

15.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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.

17.

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

A Course In Miracles

18.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Muste, A. J.

27.

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

28.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

29.

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

30.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

31.

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

32.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

33.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Thomas a Kempis

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Smiles, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

43.

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

Proverb

44.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

45.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

46.

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

Unesco

47.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

48.

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

Hardie, James Keir

49.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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