Motivational Quotes

Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- Hecht, Ben

Best Quotes about Peace

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

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Thomas a Kempis

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

10.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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

Thant, U.

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Serling, Rod

35.

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

Allen, James

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

40.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

43.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

50.

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

Moore, Marianne