Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Smiles, Samuel

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

10.

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

A Course In Miracles

11.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

15.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Washington, George

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

21.

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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Amis, Martin

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

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

36.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

37.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

38.

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

Peter McWilliams

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

41.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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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

46.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

49.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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