Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Unesco

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Thomson, James

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

26.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Steiner, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus