Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

- Sadat, Anwar

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Carlos Santana

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

Lennon, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.

Woolf, Virginia