Motivational Quotes

Peace

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]

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Best Quotes about Peace

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

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

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

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Thomas a Kempis

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steiner, George

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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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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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