Motivational Quotes

Peace

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

- Hermocrates of Syracuse

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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.

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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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]

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Allen, James

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

Washington, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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 practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Truman, Harry S

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Serling, Rod

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

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