Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Wiesel, Elie

3.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

4.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

5.

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

6.

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

Steiner, George

7.

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

8.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

9.

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

10.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

12.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

13.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

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

Thant, U.

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

18.

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

19.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

20.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

24.

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

Nicols, Peter

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

28.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

Thomson, James

30.

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

Bible

31.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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.

33.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

35.

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

Truman, Harry S

36.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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.

38.

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

Proverb

39.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

40.

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

Bible

41.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

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

44.

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

Anton Chekhov

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

47.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

48.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

49.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

50.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin