Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

11.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Buddha

18.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

20.

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

21.

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

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

25.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Unesco

30.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

32.

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

33.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

34.

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

Moore, Marianne

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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

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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.

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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

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

40.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Allen, James

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

44.

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

Milton, John

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

46.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Washington, George