Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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.

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Muste, A. J.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lennon, John