Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Bible

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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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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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Allen, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steiner, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, 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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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Washington, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Milton, John

43.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

44.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

45.

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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