Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

2.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

3.

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

4.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

5.

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

Smiles, Samuel

6.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

7.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

8.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

9.

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.

10.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

14.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

15.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

16.

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

Washington, George

17.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

18.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

19.

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

Truman, Harry S

20.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

21.

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

Amis, Martin

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

27.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

30.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

31.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

32.

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

33.

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

Lennon, John

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Anton Chekhov

37.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

38.

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.

39.

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