Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Carlos Santana

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

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Steiner, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

13.

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

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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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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

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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 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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

20.

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

Amis, Martin

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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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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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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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

27.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

28.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

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

A Course In Miracles

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

36.

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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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.

38.

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

Serling, Rod

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

41.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

William Shakespeare

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