Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- O'Connor, Basil

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Truman, Harry S

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Proverb

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

12.

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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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Allen, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Thomson, James

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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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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 not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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.