Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

10.

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Allen, James

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

27.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

30.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

31.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

32.

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

Steiner, George

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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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

36.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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 has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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

Thomson, James

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

William Shakespeare

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

Smiles, Samuel

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope 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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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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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore