Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

10.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

16.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

21.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Lennon, John

25.

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

26.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

27.

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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

30.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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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

46.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

47.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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.