Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Muste, A. J.

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Washington, George

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

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

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

Thant, U.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Steiner, George

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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 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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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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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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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Muste, A. J.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.