Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Thomson, James

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

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

Allen, James

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

16.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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 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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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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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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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Kennedy, John F.

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace