Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

William Shakespeare

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wiesel, Elie

If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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

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

Bible

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

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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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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Amis, Martin

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Washington, George

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

Truman, Harry S

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hardie, James Keir

33.

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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 produced by war.