Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

Best Quotes about Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Truman, Harry S

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Bible

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

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

15.

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

Unesco

16.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

17.

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

Washington, George

18.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

24.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

27.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

31.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

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

Nicols, Peter

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

37.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

38.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

39.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

42.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

45.

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

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.