Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Russell, Bertrand

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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

Carlos Santana

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Bible

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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Serling, Rod

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

Muste, A. J.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Proverb

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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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.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

41.

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

Allen, James

42.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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

47.

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

Lennon, John

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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