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

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

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Thomson, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

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.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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]

Bible

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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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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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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Washington, George

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.