Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

11.

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.

12.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

Thant, U.

22.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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.

34.

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

A Course In Miracles

35.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

36.

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

37.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

38.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

44.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

49.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

50.

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