Motivational Quotes

Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Washington, George

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Proverb

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

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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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 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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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peter McWilliams

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

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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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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.