Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

O'Connor, Basil

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milton, John

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Serling, Rod

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

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Buddha

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

Thomson, James

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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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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 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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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

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

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

Carlos Santana

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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