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

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

Proverb

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Allen, James

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

Kennedy, John F.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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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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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lennon, John

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, 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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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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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.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.