Motivational Quotes

Peace

Right human relations is the only true peace.

- Bailey, Alice A.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Thant, U.

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thomson, James

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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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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

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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Washington, George

28.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

33.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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