Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hardie, James Keir

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Washington, George

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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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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

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thomson, James

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Serling, Rod

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

A Course In Miracles

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Unesco

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus