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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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

Peter McWilliams

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Muste, A. J.

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Washington, George

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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

Washington, George

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

43.

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 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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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nicols, Peter

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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