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

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

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Bible

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Thomson, James

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

18.

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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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

20.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Milton, John

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lennon, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon