Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

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 greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Smiles, Samuel

41.

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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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.

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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George