Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Amis, Martin

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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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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

11.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

12.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Thant, U.

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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.

18.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Lennon, John

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

30.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

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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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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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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

43.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

45.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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