Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Steiner, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Lennon, John

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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 not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Lennon, John

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.