Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Hardie, James Keir

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Allen, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Lennon, John

11.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

12.

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

Bible

13.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

Nicols, Peter

15.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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.

17.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

18.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

22.

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

Serling, Rod

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Steiner, George

26.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

28.

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

Dayan, Moshe

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

31.

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

Lennon, John

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

36.

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

Thomas a Kempis

37.

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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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

39.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Milton, John

43.

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

Unesco

44.

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

Thomson, James

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry