Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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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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

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Lennon, John

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

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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

Proverb

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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.