Motivational Quotes

Peace

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Pilgrim, Peace

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

10.

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

11.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

12.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

13.

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

14.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

15.

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

16.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

18.

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

19.

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

O'Connor, Basil

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

23.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

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

Milton, John

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Muste, A. J.

29.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

31.

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.

32.

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

Unesco

33.

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

Thomas a Kempis

34.

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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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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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

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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

38.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

39.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

45.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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

47.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

48.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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.

Gladstone, William E.

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