Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bible

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

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

Thomson, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

10.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

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.

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

13.

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

Bible

14.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

15.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

17.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

18.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Lennon, John

20.

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

Hardie, James Keir

21.

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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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

23.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Milton, John

25.

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

Steiner, George

26.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Anton Chekhov

31.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

35.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Allen, James

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Muste, A. J.

40.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

Lennon, 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.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

45.

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.

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

49.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

50.

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

Dayan, Moshe