Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

O'Connor, Basil

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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 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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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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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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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.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Washington, George

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Peter McWilliams

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Muste, A. J.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Serling, Rod

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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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De