Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Thomson, James

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

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.

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thomas a Kempis

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Lennon, John

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

25.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

26.

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

27.

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

Unesco

28.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Lennon, John

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Serling, Rod

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Anton Chekhov

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Kin