Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Carlos Santana

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Milton, John

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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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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 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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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Nicols, Peter

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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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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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