Motivational Quotes

Peace

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

- Dayan, Moshe

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hill, Napoleon

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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.

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

Moore, Marianne

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

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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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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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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

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Allen, James

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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.