Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Amis, Martin

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

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

Bible

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

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.

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

Allen, James

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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 her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

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

Proverb, Turkish

18.

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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

23.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Peter McWilliams

32.

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

Lennon, John

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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin