Motivational Quotes

Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Bible

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

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.

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

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

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

12.

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

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Lennon, John

15.

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

16.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

20.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

21.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

22.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

24.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dyke, Henry Van

26.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

27.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Wiesel, Elie

30.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

31.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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.

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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

36.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Allen, James

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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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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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Thomson, James

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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.