Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Allen, James

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Lennon, John

10.

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

Unesco

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

22.

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

Proverb, Turkish

23.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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

43.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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.