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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dayan, Moshe

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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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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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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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 has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lennon, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Amis, Martin

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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

Thomson, James

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.