Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- Mehta, C. C.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Thomson, James

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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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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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

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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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 peace dividend is peace.