Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

10.

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

11.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

12.

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

A Course In Miracles

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

16.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

20.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

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

Milton, John

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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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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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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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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

30.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

31.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

32.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

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

Lennon, John

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

Washington, George

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

40.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

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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

44.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

45.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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