Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Bible

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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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.

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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

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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

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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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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman