Motivational Quotes

Peace

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hill, Napoleon

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

10.

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.

11.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

14.

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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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

16.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

21.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

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

Lennon, John

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

38.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

43.

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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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Milton, John

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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.