Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bible

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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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

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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 pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.