Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

10.

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.

11.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

12.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

13.

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.

14.

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

Hardie, James Keir

15.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

Anton Chekhov

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

23.

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

Bible

24.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

25.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

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

27.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

28.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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

32.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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

Amis, Martin

34.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

35.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

37.

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

Washington, George

38.

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

Muste, A. J.

39.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

43.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

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

45.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

50.

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