Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Nicols, Peter

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wiesel, Elie

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Washington, George

11.

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

12.

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

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

19.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Allen, James

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

Amis, Martin

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

Proverb

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

29.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A Course In Miracles

31.

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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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

34.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

35.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Anton Chekhov

43.

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

44.

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

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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

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

47.

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

Moore, Marianne

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese