Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Amis, Martin

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Allen, James

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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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

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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.

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

Unesco

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.