Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Lennon, John

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Kin

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

10.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

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

Peter McWilliams

14.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

17.

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

Hardie, James Keir

18.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

23.

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

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

25.

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

26.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

27.

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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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

29.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

33.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

34.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

35.

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.

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

38.

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 is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

41.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

42.

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

43.

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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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

45.

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

46.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

47.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

48.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

49.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

50.

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