Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lennon, John

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

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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

11.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Washington, George

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Muste, A. J.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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

Thomson, James

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

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.