Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Truman, Harry S

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

William Shakespeare

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

Moore, Marianne

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Lennon, John

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Allen, James

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Nicols, Peter

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

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

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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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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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