Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thomson, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Amis, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

Washington, George

19.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

20.

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

Muste, A. J.

21.

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.

22.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Washington, George

25.

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

27.

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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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.

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

Smiles, Samuel

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

33.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

34.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

38.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Bible

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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

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

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.

45.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Nicols, Peter

47.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre