Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dayan, Moshe

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

24.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Thomson, James

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

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Thant, U.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Washington, George

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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