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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

14.

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

Amis, Martin

15.

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

16.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

17.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

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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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

20.

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

Peter McWilliams

21.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

23.

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

Thomson, James

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Nicols, Peter

28.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

29.

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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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.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

32.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

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 rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Milton, John

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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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

43.

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

Proverb

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?