Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Proverb, Turkish

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

O'Connor, Basil

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

13.

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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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 peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Truman, Harry S

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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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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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 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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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

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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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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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 is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

44.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Washington, George

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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