Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Milton, John

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

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

Lennon, John

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Truman, Harry S

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Serling, Rod

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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

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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.