Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Thant, U.

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

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

Carlos Santana

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Hubbard, Kin

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Muste, A. J.

11.

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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Allen, James

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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 dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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