Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Nicols, Peter

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Steiner, George

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Milton, John

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

Allen, James

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Bible

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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