Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

2.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

3.

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.

4.

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

Thomas a Kempis

5.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

6.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

7.

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.

8.

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

Proverb, Turkish

9.

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

10.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

13.

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

14.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

15.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

22.

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

Thomson, James

23.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

24.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

25.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

27.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

28.

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

29.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

30.

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

Milton, John

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

32.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Allen, James

36.

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

Bible

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

Thant, U.

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

Amis, Martin

42.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

46.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

Lennon, John

48.

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

Smiles, Samuel

49.

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

50.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.