Motivational Quotes

Peace

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thomson, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Steiner, George

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.