Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Moore, Marianne

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Buddha

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Allen, James

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

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Steiner, George

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

Lennon, John

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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