Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Buddha

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Lennon, John

12.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Milton, John

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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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thomson, James

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.