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

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

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

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dyke, Henry Van

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Serling, Rod

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

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

Lennon, John

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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.