Motivational Quotes

Peace

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Muste, A. J.

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Allen, James

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Thomson, James

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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa