Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Milton, John

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

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

Muste, A. J.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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

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

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

O'Connor, Basil

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

A Course In Miracles

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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]

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