Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Peace

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomson, James

10.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

13.

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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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Washington, George

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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

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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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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

28.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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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 him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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.

Inge, Dean William R.

46.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal