Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Bible

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Muste, A. J.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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.

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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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

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha