Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

11.

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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

17.

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

Smiles, Samuel

18.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

20.

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

Thant, U.

21.

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

32.

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

Bible

33.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

34.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

35.

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

Hardie, James Keir

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Nicols, Peter

38.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

39.

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

Moore, Marianne

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

46.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

48.

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.

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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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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.