Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Buddha

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Lennon, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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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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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Allen, James

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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

Lennon, John

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

Thomson, James

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.