Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

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

Amis, Martin

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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.

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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 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

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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 is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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

26.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Washington, George

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lennon, John

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

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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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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.