Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Anton Chekhov

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Washington, George

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

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

14.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

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

Proverb

16.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

17.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

18.

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

19.

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

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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.

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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.

23.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

26.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Allen, James

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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

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

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

32.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

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

34.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

35.

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

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

Serling, Rod

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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.

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

Washington, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Lennon, John

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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

42.

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

Nicols, Peter

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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

45.

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

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

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.

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb, Turkish