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

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Dayan, Moshe

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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.

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

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

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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Proverb, Turkish

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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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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

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

Bible

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

Wiesel, Elie

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

28.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

38.

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

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

Washington, George

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it