Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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

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

Milton, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Serling, Rod

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muste, A. J.

11.

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

Bible

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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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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Anton Chekhov

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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 a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thomson, James

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

38.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Dyke, Henry Van

40.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

42.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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

44.

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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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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.