Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

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

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Amis, Martin

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Washington, George

11.

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

12.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

13.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

15.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

16.

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

17.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

21.

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

22.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

24.

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

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Peter McWilliams

26.

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

Wiesel, Elie

27.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

32.

'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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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

34.

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

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Right human relations is the only true peace.