Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

19.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bible

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Allen, James

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.