Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Washington, George

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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

Amis, Martin

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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 and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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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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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.

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

Washington, George

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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

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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.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Serling, Rod

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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.

41.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Milton, John

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.