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

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

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

Steiner, George

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

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

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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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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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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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bible

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Lennon, John

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Washington, George

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

Hammarskjold, Dag