Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- Mehta, C. C.

Best Quotes about Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Steiner, George

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

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

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Allen, James

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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