Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wiesel, Elie

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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 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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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

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

Milton, John

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

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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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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

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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.

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.