Motivational Quotes

Peace

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Peace

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Thant, U.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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.

11.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

13.

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

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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.

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

20.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

26.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

27.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

28.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Peter McWilliams

32.

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.

33.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

36.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

39.

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

40.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

41.

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

42.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

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

Smiles, Samuel

44.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

47.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

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

50.

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

Kempis, Thomas