Motivational Quotes

Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

- John Paul VI

Best Quotes about Peace

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Muste, A. J.

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

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Serling, Rod

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Bible

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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