Motivational Quotes

Peace

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

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Best Quotes about Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Lennon, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

13.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Milton, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

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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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Kempis, Thomas

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