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

1.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

2.

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

Kempis, Thomas

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

7.

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.

8.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

9.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Steiner, George

12.

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

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

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

Anton Chekhov

16.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

18.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

21.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

22.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

25.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

28.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

29.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Carlos Santana

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Muste, A. J.

37.

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

38.

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

Thant, U.

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Smiles, Samuel

42.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

43.

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

Amis, Martin

44.

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

45.

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

46.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

47.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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