Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hermocrates of Syracuse

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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.

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.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

11.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

14.

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

Milton, John

15.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

16.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

27.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Dayan, Moshe

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.