Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

2.

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

3.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Kennedy, John F.

9.

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

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

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

Serling, Rod

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

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

Hardie, James Keir

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Kempis, Thomas

21.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

22.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

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

Smiles, Samuel

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

33.

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

Anton Chekhov

34.

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

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

36.

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.

37.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

38.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

39.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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