Motivational Quotes

Peace

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Milton, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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.

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

Bible

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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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 is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Peace with a club in hand is war.