Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Milton, John

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

11.

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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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

13.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

28.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Anton Chekhov

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?