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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Proverb

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

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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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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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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