Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Washington, George

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

Unesco

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.

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

12.

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.

13.

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

Nicols, Peter

14.

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

15.

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

Smiles, Samuel

16.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

18.

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

A Course In Miracles

19.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Hardie, James Keir

23.

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

24.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Allen, James

26.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

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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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.

30.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

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

39.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

40.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

41.

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

Thant, U.

42.

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