Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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

O'Connor, Basil

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

10.

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

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

13.

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

Thomson, James

14.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

15.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

16.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

18.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

19.

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

20.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

28.

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

29.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

30.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

31.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Hardie, James Keir

39.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Muste, A. J.

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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.

43.

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

Bible

44.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

45.

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

Lennon, John

46.

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

47.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin