Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lennon, John

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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.

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

Milton, John

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

Thomson, James

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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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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 the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Bible

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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