Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- O'Connor, Basil

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Proverb, Turkish

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Amis, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

16.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

17.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

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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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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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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

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

29.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

30.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

38.

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

45.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

46.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

48.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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