Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thomson, James

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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

22.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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

25.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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

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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

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

Proverb

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.