Motivational Quotes

Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

- John Paul VI

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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

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

Thomson, James

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Allen, James

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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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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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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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

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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.