Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

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

Thant, U.

14.

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

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

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

Allen, James

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

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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.

21.

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

Lennon, John

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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

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

26.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Steiner, George

30.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

37.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

38.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

39.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

40.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

43.

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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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

45.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

46.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

48.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

49.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von