Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

2.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

3.

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

Thant, U.

4.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

5.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

9.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

13.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

22.

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Truman, Harry S

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

29.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

Moore, Marianne

31.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

32.

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

Smiles, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

44.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal