Motivational Quotes

Peace

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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.

10.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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.

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

Hardie, James Keir

15.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

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

22.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

24.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

31.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

34.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Allen, James

41.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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.

44.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

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

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Truman, Harry S

49.

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