Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

- A Course In Miracles

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Allen, James

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Moore, Marianne

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

14.

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

Thomas a Kempis

15.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

16.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Thant, U.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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

Proverb

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

William Shakespeare

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

45.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

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

Truman, Harry S