Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Washington, George

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

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

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

11.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

12.

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

Wiesel, Elie

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

19.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

22.

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

Hardie, James Keir

23.

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

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.

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

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

29.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Dayan, Moshe

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

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.

35.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Muste, A. J.

40.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

43.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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

45.

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

46.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

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