Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Peace

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Lennon, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

11.

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

12.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

17.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

Thomson, James

20.

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

Steiner, George

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

Milton, John

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

25.

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

31.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

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

Bible

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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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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Bible

39.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

40.

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

Washington, George

41.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Truman, Harry S

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.