Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Nicols, Peter

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

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

12.

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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Steiner, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Anton Chekhov

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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 God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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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

38.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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.

40.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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