Motivational Quotes

Peace

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Peace

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

11.

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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lennon, John

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

Steiner, George

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

Thomson, James

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Milton, John

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

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.