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

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Milton, John

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

Unesco

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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.

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

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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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

11.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Steiner, George

28.

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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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Washington, George

35.

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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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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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

44.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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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.

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

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

Thomson, James

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese