Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Moore, Marianne

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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.

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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

11.

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

Bible

14.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

20.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

21.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

25.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

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.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

Steiner, George

30.

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

40.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

44.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John