Motivational Quotes

Peace

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

- Mehta, C. C.

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Lennon, John

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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.

William Shakespeare

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

Milton, John

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

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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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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Thomson, James

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Washington, George

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan