Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

A Course In Miracles

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomas a Kempis

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Washington, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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

41.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Serling, Rod

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.