Motivational Quotes

Peace

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

10.

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

11.

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

Thomson, James

12.

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

13.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

17.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

24.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Wiesel, Elie

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

A Course In Miracles

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

O'Connor, Basil

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Washington, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

40.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Truman, Harry S

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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