Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

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

Muste, A. J.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Thomson, James

21.

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

22.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

23.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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

Anton Chekhov

32.

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

Thomas a Kempis

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Nicols, Peter

35.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

36.

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

A Course In Miracles

37.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Thant, U.

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Truman, Harry S

44.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

49.

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