Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Washington, George

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

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

Allen, James

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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.

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

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

10.

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

Peter McWilliams

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

Wiesel, Elie

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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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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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

23.

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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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Hardie, James Keir

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

31.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

33.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

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

Smiles, Samuel

36.

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

39.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

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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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.

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

44.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

45.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Lennon, John

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

Unesco