Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Thomson, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Unesco

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Allen, James

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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]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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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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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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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