Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Nicols, Peter

Best Quotes about Peace

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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

Amis, Martin

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

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

Buddha

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Washington, George

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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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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger