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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Milton, John

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

O'Connor, Basil

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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

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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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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

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Lennon, John

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Allen, James

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.