Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thomson, James

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

10.

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

Washington, George

11.

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

Moore, Marianne

12.

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

13.

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

14.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

15.

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

Bible

16.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

19.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

24.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

25.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

26.

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

O'Connor, Basil

27.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

28.

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

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Bible

32.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

33.

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

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

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

37.

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

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.

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.

40.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

41.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Muste, A. J.

47.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

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

Lennon, John

49.

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.