Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, 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

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

Unesco

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

10.

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

Thomson, James

11.

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

12.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

13.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Nicols, Peter

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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.

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

25.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

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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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

32.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Buddha

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

Milton, John

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.