Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Washington, George

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.

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

Lennon, John

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

Carlos Santana

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

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

10.

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

11.

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.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

14.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nicols, Peter

22.

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

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

25.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

32.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

33.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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.

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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

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Thant, U.

41.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

44.

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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.