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

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Anton Chekhov

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.

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.

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

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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

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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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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

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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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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.