Motivational Quotes

Peace

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

- John Paul VI

Best Quotes about Peace

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

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

17.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

21.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Serling, Rod

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

26.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomson, James

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

31.

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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Eisenberg, Larry

34.

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

35.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

40.

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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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