Motivational Quotes

Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

- John Paul VI

Best Quotes about Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

Buddha

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

10.

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

11.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

12.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

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

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

15.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

19.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

20.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

21.

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

Anton Chekhov

22.

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

23.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

26.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

31.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

36.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

37.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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

40.

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

Unesco

41.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

45.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Proverb

49.

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

Truman, Harry S

50.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger