Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Muste, A. J.

Best Quotes about 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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.

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

14.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kennedy, John F.

22.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

26.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

28.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Lennon, John

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Washington, George

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Lennon, John

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

Carlos Santana

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

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese