Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Muste, A. J.

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Allen, James

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Amis, Martin

25.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

34.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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

Lennon, John

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

37.

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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

Lennon, John