Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Amis, Martin

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Lennon, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Carlos Santana

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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.