Motivational Quotes

Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

O'Connor, Basil

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bible

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

21.

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

Lennon, John

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

Washington, George

27.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Steiner, George

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Milton, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Serling, Rod