Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Hardie, James Keir

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.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

Kennedy, John F.

15.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

16.

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.

17.

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

Washington, George

18.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

19.

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

20.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

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

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

29.

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

Milton, John

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

34.

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

Peter McWilliams

35.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

36.

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

37.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

38.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

40.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

43.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

44.

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.

45.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

48.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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