Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

- Carlos Santana

Best Quotes about Peace

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steiner, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What we need is a generation of peace.