Motivational Quotes

Peace

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Serling, Rod

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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 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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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