Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Lennon, John

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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 wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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 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 peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Lennon, John

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

Steiner, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Serling, Rod

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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]

Bible

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 our gift to each other.