Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

10.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

13.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

Smiles, Samuel

16.

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.

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hardie, James Keir

20.

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

21.

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

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.

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

24.

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

Amis, Martin

25.

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

Washington, George

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

28.

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

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

32.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

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

34.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

37.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

38.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

41.

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

Thomson, James

42.

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

43.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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