Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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.

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

Bible

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

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Carlos Santana

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amis, Martin

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Lennon, John

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

Thomson, James

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

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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

Washington, George

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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