Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

10.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Milton, John

14.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

17.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

Bible

19.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

20.

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

21.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

22.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

23.

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

24.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

25.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

26.

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

Kempis, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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.

31.

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

Serling, Rod

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Carlos Santana

37.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

39.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Unesco

43.

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.

44.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

45.

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.

46.

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

Hardie, James Keir

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

50.

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