Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Washington, George

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

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

11.

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

12.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Bible

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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 is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

Lennon, John

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

22.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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.

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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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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

27.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

31.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

35.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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

38.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

Lennon, John

40.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Smiles, Samuel

42.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Allen, James

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar