Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Buddha

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

Muste, A. J.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Amis, Martin

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.