Motivational Quotes

Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Peace

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hill, Napoleon

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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 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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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

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

30.

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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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