Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Lennon, 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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

15.

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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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wiesel, Elie

23.

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

Washington, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

27.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

28.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Proverb

30.

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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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.

32.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

34.

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

35.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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.

39.

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

Lennon, John

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.