Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Proverb

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

Unesco

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

Washington, George

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

Anton Chekhov

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

22.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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

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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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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

30.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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 a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.