Motivational Quotes

Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

2.

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.

3.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

4.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

5.

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

6.

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

Unesco

7.

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

Kempis, Thomas

8.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

9.

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

10.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

11.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

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

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

30.

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

Allen, James

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

33.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

34.

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

Proverb, Turkish

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

38.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

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

40.

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

Washington, George

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

43.

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

44.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

45.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

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

O'Connor, Basil

47.

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

Milton, John

48.

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

49.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

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

Thomson, James