Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Muste, A. J.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Washington, George

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

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

Thomson, James

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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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Allen, James

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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 made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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.

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

44.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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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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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace