Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bible

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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

Bible

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

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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

11.

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.

12.

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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

14.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

17.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

18.

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

Thant, U.

19.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

20.

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

Muste, A. J.

21.

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

Peter McWilliams

22.

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

23.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

25.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

27.

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

28.

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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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Allen, James

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

Lennon, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we need is a generation of peace.