Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

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

Milton, John

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

Washington, George

10.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

12.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

William Shakespeare

17.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

23.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

24.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

27.

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

Steiner, George

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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.

33.

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

Smiles, Samuel

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Nicols, Peter

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.