Motivational Quotes

Peace

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

- L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Milton, John

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Thomson, James

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

Steiner, George

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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]

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

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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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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