Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Proverb

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Thant, U.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

A Course In Miracles

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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

10.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

12.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

13.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

15.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

16.

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

17.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

18.

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

Amis, Martin

19.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Hardie, James Keir

22.

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

23.

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

Steiner, George

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

27.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

38.

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

Thomson, James

39.

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

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

41.

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

Nicols, Peter

42.

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.

43.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

44.

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

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Dayan, Moshe

48.

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

Washington, George

49.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame