Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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

11.

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.

12.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

13.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

14.

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

Thomson, James

15.

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

17.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

18.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

19.

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

20.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

22.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

26.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

28.

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

Buddha

29.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

30.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

31.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

33.

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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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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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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

40.

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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

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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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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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.

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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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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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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 is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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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.