Motivational Quotes

Peace

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

- L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Best Quotes about Peace

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

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

Washington, George

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

Washington, George

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Bible

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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

Bible

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

15.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

16.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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

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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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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

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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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

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.