Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Nicols, Peter

10.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Washington, George

14.

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

Bible

15.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

17.

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

18.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

19.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Carlos Santana

25.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

35.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

37.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Dayan, Moshe

39.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

50.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar