Motivational Quotes

Peace

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

- Unesco

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dyke, Henry Van

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Bible

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

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

Lennon, John

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Amis, Martin

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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 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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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

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Allen, James

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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