Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Thomson, James

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amis, Martin

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