Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Lennon, John

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Steiner, George

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Unesco

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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 is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, James

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.