Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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 is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Carlos Santana

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Washington, George

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

Bible

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

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

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Proverb

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Bible

38.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.