Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

O'Connor, Basil

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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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.

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Milton, John

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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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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.