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

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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

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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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

12.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Lennon, John

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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 a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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

33.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Bible

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.