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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Washington, George

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amis, Martin

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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'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

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

Allen, James

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Milton, John

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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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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