Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Buddha

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Moore, Marianne

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Amis, Martin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Anton Chekhov

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb