Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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 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.

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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 rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Amis, Martin

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

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Washington, George

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Smiles, Samuel

46.

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

Lennon, John

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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