Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hardie, James Keir

10.

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

O'Connor, Basil

11.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

15.

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

Proverb, Turkish

16.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

17.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Dayan, Moshe

21.

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

Lennon, John

22.

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

23.

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

Carlos Santana

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Buddha

27.

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

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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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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

30.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

31.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

32.

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

Unesco

33.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

35.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Amis, Martin

37.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

39.

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

Thomas a Kempis

40.

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

Allen, James

41.

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

Serling, Rod

42.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

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

Smiles, Samuel

49.

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

Thant, U.

50.

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.