Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Allen, James

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Truman, Harry S

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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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

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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