Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Lennon, John

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Allen, James

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Serling, Rod

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

Bible

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Steiner, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wiesel, Elie

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thomson, James

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo