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

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

Bible

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

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

Milton, John

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

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

Steiner, George

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

12.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

14.

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

Anton Chekhov

15.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

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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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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

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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

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

Buddha

32.

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

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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

34.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

40.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Amis, Martin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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