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.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

6.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

7.

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.

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

12.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

13.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

14.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

15.

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

Muste, A. J.

16.

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

17.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

20.

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.

Gide, Andre

21.

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

Serling, Rod

22.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Steiner, George

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

Wiesel, Elie

31.

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

32.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Hardie, James Keir

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

38.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

40.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

48.

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.