Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Anton Chekhov

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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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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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Dayan, Moshe

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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