Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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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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 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 first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Washington, George

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Buddha

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Allen, James

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Hubbard, Kin