Motivational Quotes

Peace

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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.

11.

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

Washington, George

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

17.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

18.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

20.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

24.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

32.

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

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

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

Dayan, Moshe

35.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

36.

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

37.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

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

Proverb, Turkish

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

42.

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

Moore, Marianne

44.

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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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

46.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

47.

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

Milton, John

48.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.