Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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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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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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 is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.