Motivational Quotes

Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

- Quayle, Dan

Best Quotes about Peace

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

13.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

14.

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

15.

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

Hardie, James Keir

16.

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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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.

18.

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

19.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

20.

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

Peter McWilliams

21.

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

Allen, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

27.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

29.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

30.

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

31.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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

33.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

35.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish