Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- Mehta, C. C.

Best Quotes about Peace

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Moore, Marianne

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steiner, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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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

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Bible

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lennon, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Allen, James

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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