Motivational Quotes

Peace

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Washington, George

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Thomson, James

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Muste, A. J.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

14.

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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thomas a Kempis

19.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

21.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Bible

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

25.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kempis, Thomas

27.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

30.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Allen, James

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

36.

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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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.

38.

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

Bible

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

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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Russell, Bertrand

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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.

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Turkish

49.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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