Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Serling, Rod

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Thant, U.

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

11.

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

Allen, James

12.

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.

13.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Nicols, Peter

15.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

16.

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

Thomson, James

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

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

Bible

19.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

20.

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

21.

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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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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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

24.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

26.

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

Dayan, Moshe

27.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

28.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb, Turkish

31.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Lennon, John

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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

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

Unesco

44.

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

Amis, Martin

45.

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

Washington, George

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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

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.