Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

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

11.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

12.

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.

13.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Lennon, John

21.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Turkish

24.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Washington, George

30.

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

Steiner, George

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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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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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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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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

40.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

42.

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

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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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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 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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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

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

Thant, U.

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

Bible

49.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt