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

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

30.

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

Milton, John

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

32.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Amis, Martin

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Allen, James

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag