Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

Milton, John

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

Eisenberg, Larry

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

11.

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

12.

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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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 world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Proverb

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lennon, John

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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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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

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

Washington, George

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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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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.