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

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thomson, James

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

Hardie, James Keir

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Milton, John

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Muste, A. J.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Proverb

12.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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 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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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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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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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace is our gift to each other.