Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Lennon, John

3.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

5.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

6.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

7.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

8.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

9.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

11.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

12.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

14.

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

15.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

16.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

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

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Dayan, Moshe

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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.

22.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

23.

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

24.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

25.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

26.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

27.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

28.

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

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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.

31.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

32.

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

Anton Chekhov

33.

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

A Course In Miracles

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

38.

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

Hardie, James Keir

39.

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

Milton, John

40.

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

Buddha

41.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

42.

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

Muste, A. J.

43.

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

44.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

45.

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

46.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

47.

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

Bible

48.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh