Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Allen, James

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Wiesel, Elie

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.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

18.

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

19.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

20.

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

21.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

22.

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

23.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

24.

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

Serling, Rod

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

29.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

31.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

32.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

33.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

34.

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

35.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

Buddha

40.

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

O'Connor, Basil

41.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Carlos Santana

43.

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

Nicols, Peter

44.

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

Truman, Harry S

45.

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