Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Peace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Thant, U.

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

Anton Chekhov

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

16.

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

Muste, A. J.

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

30.

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

Serling, Rod

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

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.

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

36.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

37.

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

38.

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

Allen, James

39.

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.

40.

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

Bible

41.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

43.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

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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

49.

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

Truman, Harry S

50.

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