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

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

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

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.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

Milton, John

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

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

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

Washington, George

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

18.

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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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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Dyke, Henry Van

22.

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

Lennon, John

23.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

24.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

32.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

34.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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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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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

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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

49.

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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod