Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Washington, George

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Unesco

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lennon, John

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

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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.

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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