Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

2.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

3.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Bible

5.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

Thant, U.

8.

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

Washington, George

9.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

12.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

13.

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

Allen, James

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.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

16.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

18.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Anton Chekhov

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

25.

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

Serling, Rod

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

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

A Course In Miracles

31.

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

Bible

32.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

33.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

34.

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

Smiles, Samuel

35.

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.

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

39.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

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.

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Bible

43.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

44.

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

Kempis, Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Milton, John

47.

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

Kennedy, John F.

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

50.

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