Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Unesco

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

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

2.

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

Washington, George

3.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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.

6.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

7.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

8.

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

O'Connor, Basil

9.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

16.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

17.

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

Moore, Marianne

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Allen, James

26.

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

Truman, Harry S

27.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

28.

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.

29.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

31.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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

Hardie, James Keir

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

39.

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

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

Thomas a Kempis

41.

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.