Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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 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

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

Buddha

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Washington, George

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Milton, John

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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.