Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Peace

1.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

2.

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

Serling, Rod

3.

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

Thomas a Kempis

4.

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

5.

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

Unesco

6.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

7.

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

Anton Chekhov

8.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

10.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

11.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Nicols, Peter

24.

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

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

Proverb, Turkish

37.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

38.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

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

Allen, James

41.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Washington, George

44.

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

45.

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

Hardie, James Keir

46.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

47.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

48.

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

49.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

50.

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