Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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.

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

Milton, John

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

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Amis, Martin

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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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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Lennon, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thant, U.