Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Allen, James

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

Kennedy, John F.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

10.

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

11.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

21.

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.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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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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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.