Motivational Quotes

Peace

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Thant, U.

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.

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

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

10.

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

11.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

Washington, George

15.

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

16.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Bible

18.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

20.

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

21.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

22.

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

Allen, James

23.

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

24.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Proverb, Turkish

29.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

30.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

35.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

36.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

37.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

42.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Moore, Marianne

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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