Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is produced by war.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Thant, U.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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]

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

Lennon, John

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Washington, George

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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