Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

15.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

17.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

25.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

28.

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

Thomson, James

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Allen, James

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Anton Chekhov

35.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

38.

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

Hardie, James Keir

39.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

40.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Proverb, Turkish

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

45.

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

Peter McWilliams

46.

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

47.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

50.

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.