Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Steiner, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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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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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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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.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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 only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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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 greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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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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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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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.