Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

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

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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.

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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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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

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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 man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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

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

Allen, James

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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

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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

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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