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

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

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Unesco

13.

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

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

Lennon, John

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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

33.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

41.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Washington, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.