Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Steiner, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Anton Chekhov

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

Bible

12.

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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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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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Washington, George

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

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

28.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

44.

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

45.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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

48.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag