Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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.

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

11.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

12.

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

13.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

19.

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

20.

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

Lennon, John

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Milton, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

33.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Muste, A. J.

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

36.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

45.

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

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Allen, James

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

King Jr. Martin Luther