Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Dyke, Henry Van

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Smiles, Samuel

If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Wiesel, Elie

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

10.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

11.

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.

12.

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

Unesco

13.

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

15.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Allen, James

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

25.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

28.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Amis, Martin

30.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

35.

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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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

40.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

41.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

43.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

44.

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.

45.

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI