Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

2.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

3.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

4.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

5.

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

Serling, Rod

6.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

7.

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

Milton, John

8.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Dayan, Moshe

11.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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.

16.

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

Amis, Martin

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Thomson, James

27.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

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

29.

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

Smiles, Samuel

30.

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

Hardie, James Keir

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

35.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

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

Carlos Santana

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Allen, James

40.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

44.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

45.

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

46.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

47.

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

Peter McWilliams

48.

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

49.

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