Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

A Course In Miracles

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Thant, U.

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

Nicols, Peter

28.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amis, Martin

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Unesco

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

Bible

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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

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

Bible

40.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Washington, George

44.

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