Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thomson, James

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Allen, James

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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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 more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Washington, George

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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

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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

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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

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

Proverb