Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

Hubbard, Kin

2.

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

Washington, George

3.

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

4.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

5.

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

6.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

7.

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

8.

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

Hardie, James Keir

9.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

13.

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.

14.

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

Serling, Rod

15.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

16.

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

Bible

17.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

18.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

24.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

25.

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.

26.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

27.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

28.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

29.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

30.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

33.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

34.

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

Allen, James

35.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

36.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

38.

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

Wiesel, Elie

39.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

40.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

43.

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

Unesco

44.

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

Muste, A. J.

45.

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

Proverb, Turkish

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

49.

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.

50.

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.