Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Moore, Marianne

2.

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

Washington, George

3.

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

Truman, Harry S

4.

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

5.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

6.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

7.

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.

8.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

9.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

10.

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

Milton, John

11.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

14.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

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

Unesco

18.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Steiner, George

23.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Serling, Rod

27.

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

Thomas a Kempis

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

31.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

34.

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.

35.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

39.

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

Muste, A. J.

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Amis, Martin

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Turkish

49.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

50.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI