Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Moore, Marianne

Best Quotes about 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

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

Thomson, James

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Bible

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

11.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

14.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

15.

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

Bible

16.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

22.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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

27.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

28.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

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

Lennon, John

31.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

33.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

34.

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

35.

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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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 no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

47.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 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.