Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Buddha

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

11.

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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Proverb

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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.

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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 is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Thomson, James

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.