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

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

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

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Washington, George

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Allen, James

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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.

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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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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 one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.