Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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.

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

Washington, George

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

10.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

11.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

12.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

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.

14.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

15.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

16.

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

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Bible

19.

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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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

21.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

A Course In Miracles

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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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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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.

30.

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

Bible

31.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

33.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wiesel, Elie

37.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

40.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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.

43.

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

Unesco

44.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

49.

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

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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.