Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Amis, Martin

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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

19.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Hardie, James Keir

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

41.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.