Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

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.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Allen, James

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Muste, A. J.

12.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

13.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

17.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

19.

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

20.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

21.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

22.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

23.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Amis, Martin

25.

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

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Serling, Rod

28.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

29.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

34.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

35.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

36.

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

Bible

37.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

38.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

41.

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

Carlos Santana

42.

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

43.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

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

Thant, U.

47.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

48.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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

50.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh