Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Thomson, James

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Milton, John

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

Lennon, John

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

Muste, A. J.

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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

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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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

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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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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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Please, we can get along here.