Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Unesco

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

29.

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

Washington, George

31.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

32.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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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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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

50.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William