Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

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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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Washington, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Proverb

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Thomson, James

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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