Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Hardie, James Keir

3.

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

Lennon, John

4.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

Proverb, Turkish

6.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

7.

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

8.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

9.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

10.

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

Smiles, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

Anton Chekhov

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

18.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Thant, U.

21.

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.

22.

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

Carlos Santana

23.

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.

24.

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

Nicols, Peter

25.

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

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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.

35.

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

A Course In Miracles

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Wiesel, Elie

38.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

39.

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

Steiner, George

40.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

41.

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.

42.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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

Lennon, John

45.

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