Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

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

Unesco

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Allen, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

16.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thomson, James

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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

Milton, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Thomas a Kempis

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Amis, Martin

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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.