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

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.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Buddha

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Peter McWilliams

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

15.

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

Unesco

16.

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

Carlos Santana

17.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

18.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

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

20.

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

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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

22.

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

A Course In Miracles

23.

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

Hardie, James Keir

24.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

29.

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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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.

31.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

32.

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

Proverb

33.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

37.

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

Thomas a Kempis

38.

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

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von