Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Truman, Harry S

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Thomson, James

12.

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

Proverb, Turkish

13.

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

14.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

15.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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

17.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

18.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

20.

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

Unesco

21.

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

Nicols, Peter

22.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

23.

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

Allen, James

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Washington, George

27.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

29.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

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

O'Connor, Basil

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

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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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

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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

37.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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.

40.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

42.

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

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Peace is produced by war.