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

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Lennon, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Proverb

11.

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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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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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 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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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, James

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amis, Martin

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

Serling, Rod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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

46.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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