Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Anton Chekhov

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Serling, Rod

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Hardie, James Keir

11.

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

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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

20.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Unesco

22.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

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

Amis, Martin

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Lennon, John

29.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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

31.

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

32.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

33.

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

Washington, George

34.

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

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

37.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

38.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Steiner, George

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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

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

Thomson, James

46.

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

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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

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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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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

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

Dyke, Henry Van