Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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

11.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

12.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thomson, James

14.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

Steiner, George

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

28.

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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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.

50.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin