Motivational Quotes

Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bible

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Nicols, Peter

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

28.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

29.

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

30.

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

Hardie, James Keir

31.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wiesel, Elie

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

44.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Anton Chekhov

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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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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