Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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.

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Carlos Santana

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

10.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

12.

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

Dayan, Moshe

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

15.

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

16.

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

Thant, U.

17.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Allen, James

20.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Bible

27.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

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

31.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

32.

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

Moore, Marianne

33.

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

Hardie, James Keir

34.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

43.

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

Amis, Martin

44.

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

Kempis, Thomas

45.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

46.

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

Peter McWilliams

47.

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

48.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William