Motivational Quotes

Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Proverb

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Milton, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dayan, Moshe

10.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

11.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

17.

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

18.

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

Moore, Marianne

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Washington, George

21.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Washington, George

25.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

26.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Amis, Martin

28.

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

Unesco

29.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

30.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

31.

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.

32.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

Nicols, Peter

41.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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.

44.

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

Proverb, Turkish

45.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

47.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

48.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI