Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Bible

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

Steiner, George

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Serling, Rod

12.

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.

13.

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

Lennon, John

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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

15.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

16.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

18.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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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

21.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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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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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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Allen, James

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

Thomas a Kempis

34.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

38.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

40.

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

Washington, George

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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

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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