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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Washington, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lennon, John

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Turkish

41.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

43.

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

44.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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