Motivational Quotes

Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Peace

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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

Proverb

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Washington, George

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

Allen, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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.