Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

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

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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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 man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 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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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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.