Motivational Quotes

Peace

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Anton Chekhov

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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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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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 that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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.

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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Serling, Rod

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Allen, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Peter McWilliams

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