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

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Peter McWilliams

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

34.

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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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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.