Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

Best Quotes about 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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Amis, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Anton Chekhov

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Bible

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Thomson, James

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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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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Washington, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

45.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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