Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Washington, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

12.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Turkish

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Steiner, George

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Milton, John

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Thomson, James

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Lennon, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Washington, George

49.

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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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