Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bible

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

10.

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

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

13.

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

Thomson, James

14.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

18.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

20.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Washington, George

24.

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

Amis, Martin

25.

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

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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.

27.

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

Thomas a Kempis

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

38.

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

Lennon, John

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

44.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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

Anton Chekhov

46.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

47.

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

48.

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

Peter McWilliams

49.

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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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.