Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Peace

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Milton, John

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steiner, George

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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 our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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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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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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Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

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