Motivational Quotes

Peace

Right human relations is the only true peace.

- Bailey, Alice A.

Best Quotes about Peace

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

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.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Serling, Rod

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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

21.

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

Bible

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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, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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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.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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