Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- O'Connor, Basil

Best Quotes about Peace

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Thomson, James

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

Steiner, George

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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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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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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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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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Muste, A. J.

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

42.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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