Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Peace

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.