Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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

12.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Washington, George

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

20.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Washington, George

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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

26.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 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

32.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lennon, John

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

43.

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

Bible

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

Thomson, James

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.