Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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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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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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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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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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 is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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.

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal