Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Eisenberg, Larry

Best Quotes about Peace

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Carlos Santana

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lennon, John

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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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.

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

Lennon, John

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

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

Washington, George

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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

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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.