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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Anton Chekhov

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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

11.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Proverb

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Proverb, Turkish

35.

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

Bible

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

48.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark