Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peter McWilliams

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

11.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

12.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

18.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

Smiles, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

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

Anton Chekhov

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

24.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

25.

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

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

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

32.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

33.

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

Thant, U.

34.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

37.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

38.

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

O'Connor, Basil

39.

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

40.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

44.

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

45.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

46.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

47.

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

Nicols, Peter

48.

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

49.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

50.

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

Kennedy, John F.