Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Unesco

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Truman, Harry S

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

25.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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 understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Thomson, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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