Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Lennon, John

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

Lennon, John

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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

11.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Thomas a Kempis

15.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

19.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

23.

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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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

25.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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

34.

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

Steiner, George

36.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

38.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

43.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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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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.

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney