Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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.

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

10.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Washington, George

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thomson, James

18.

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

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

Lennon, John

22.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

26.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

30.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

33.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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 has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

40.

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

Steiner, George

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

Buddha

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

Washington, George

43.

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

Anton Chekhov

44.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

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.

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

47.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

48.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

49.

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

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

Thant, U.