Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

19.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Proverb

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Washington, George

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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

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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 many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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.

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Milton, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.