Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

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

10.

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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

12.

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

Amis, Martin

13.

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

Proverb

14.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

15.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

19.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

20.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Thomson, James

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

25.

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.

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Allen, James

28.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

31.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

33.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

34.

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

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

40.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Nicols, Peter

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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.

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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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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

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

Lennon, John

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

Washington, George