Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Thomson, James

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

16.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

Amis, Martin

22.

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

Carlos Santana

23.

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

Anton Chekhov

24.

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

Buddha

25.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

26.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

29.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

30.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

31.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

32.

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

Milton, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

38.

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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

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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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

42.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

43.

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

44.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

45.

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

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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