Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Amis, Martin

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Allen, James

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

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Thant, U.

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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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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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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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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 rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Bible

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