Motivational Quotes

Peace

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Serling, Rod

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Allen, James

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lennon, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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]

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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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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

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