Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Thant, U.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

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

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

A Course In Miracles

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

14.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

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

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

18.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

19.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

21.

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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

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.

25.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

29.

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

30.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

31.

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

Milton, John

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

35.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Anton Chekhov

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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.

40.

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

41.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

42.

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

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

45.

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

Allen, James

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana