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

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

Kempis, Thomas

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

10.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

11.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Allen, James

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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

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

Lennon, John

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bible

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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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