Motivational Quotes

Peace

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

- Brittain, Vera

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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.

2.

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.

3.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

4.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

5.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

6.

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

Kennedy, John F.

7.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

8.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

9.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Truman, Harry S

11.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

13.

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

14.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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

Allen, James

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

32.

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

Steiner, George

33.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

34.

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

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

38.

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

Carlos Santana

39.

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

A Course In Miracles

40.

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

41.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

47.

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

48.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

49.

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.

50.

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