Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Thomson, James

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

10.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

12.

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.

13.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

15.

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

O'Connor, Basil

16.

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

17.

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

Wiesel, Elie

18.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Steiner, George

28.

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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

Washington, George

30.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

31.

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

Anton Chekhov

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

William Shakespeare

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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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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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.

41.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

45.

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

46.

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 and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose