Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Hubbard, Kin

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

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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.

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

Washington, George

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

20.

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

Muste, A. J.

21.

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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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 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.

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

Milton, John

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hardie, James Keir

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.