Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Peace

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Proverb

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

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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 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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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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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thant, U.

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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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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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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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