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

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Proverb

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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

Thomson, James

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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