Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Peace

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Steiner, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Bible

10.

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.

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

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

Dayan, Moshe

13.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

14.

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

Hardie, James Keir

15.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

16.

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

Lennon, John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Proverb, Turkish

24.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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.

28.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

29.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

33.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Thomson, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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.

44.

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.

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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