Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Washington, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Serling, Rod

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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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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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

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

Thomas a Kempis

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Amis, Martin

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Thomson, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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

Washington, George

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

46.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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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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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.