Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

10.

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

Bible

11.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

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

14.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

15.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

16.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Anton Chekhov

19.

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

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

21.

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

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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.

George C. Marshall

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Thant, U.

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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

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

Steiner, George

35.

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

Washington, George

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

38.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Allen, James

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

Serling, Rod

43.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

50.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt