Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Muste, A. J.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

10.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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

14.

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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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.

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

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

Washington, George

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

Bible

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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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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

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

37.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Proverb, Turkish

42.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Anton Chekhov

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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