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

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

Lennon, John

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Muste, A. J.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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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

11.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

13.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

15.

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

Nicols, Peter

16.

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

17.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

18.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

26.

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

27.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

30.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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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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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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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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

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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Brahmanada, Swami

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

A Course In Miracles

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.