Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Washington, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wiesel, Elie

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

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

Hubbard, Kin

17.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

18.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

20.

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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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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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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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 is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Steiner, George

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Lennon, John

43.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hardie, James Keir

49.

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

Peter McWilliams