Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peter McWilliams

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

10.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

12.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

13.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

14.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

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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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

24.

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

Amis, Martin

25.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

26.

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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

28.

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

29.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Kempis, Thomas

32.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

33.

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

Nicols, Peter

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

38.

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

39.

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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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

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

42.

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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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Lennon, John

45.

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

Anton Chekhov

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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

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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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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