Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

O'Connor, Basil

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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.

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

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Thant, U.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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.

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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'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 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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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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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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI