Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Washington, George

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

Lennon, John

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Muste, A. J.

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

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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 has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Steiner, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Allen, James

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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hardie, James Keir

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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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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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