Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is our gift to each other.

- Wiesel, Elie

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Unesco

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lennon, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Washington, George

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

A Course In Miracles

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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