Motivational Quotes

Peace

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

- Hermocrates of Syracuse

Best Quotes about Peace

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

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Kennedy, John F.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Buddha

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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 we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nicols, Peter

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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

31.

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

Lennon, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Serling, Rod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Lennon, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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