Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Proverb

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.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Pilgrim, Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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 would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.