Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Milton, John

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

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

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

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

Washington, George

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Thomas a Kempis

11.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

12.

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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

15.

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

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bible

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

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

22.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Allen, James

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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