Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Washington, George

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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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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 not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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, 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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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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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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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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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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

31.

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

Bible

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Milton, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Allen, James

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Pilgrim, Peace