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

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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

Anton Chekhov

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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 is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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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.

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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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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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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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 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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Buddha

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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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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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.