Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thomson, James

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Carlos Santana

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Washington, George

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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 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

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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Bible

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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