Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Carlos Santana

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

Amis, Martin

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Murry, John Middleton

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Bible

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Buddha

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Washington, George

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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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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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