Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Moore, Marianne

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

2.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

6.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

7.

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

Milton, John

8.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

9.

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

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

12.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

15.

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

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

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

Moore, Marianne

18.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Smiles, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

Muste, A. J.

29.

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.

30.

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

Dayan, Moshe

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Thant, U.

36.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

37.

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

Allen, James

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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.

43.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

46.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

47.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

48.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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