Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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.

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

Bible

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Lennon, John

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

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

Hardie, James Keir

12.

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

13.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

20.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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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

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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 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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

37.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

38.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

39.

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

Proverb, Turkish

40.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Milton, John

45.

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

Smiles, Samuel

48.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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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