Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Muste, A. J.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

Amis, Martin

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Washington, George

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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

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

37.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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

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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