Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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

Peter McWilliams

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It 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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Milton, John

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Amis, Martin

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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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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