Motivational Quotes

Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Milton, John

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

16.

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

17.

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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Washington, George

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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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

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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

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

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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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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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

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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.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.