Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Muste, A. J.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

19.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

29.

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

30.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

35.

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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Milton, John

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

44.

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

Bible

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Dyke, Henry Van

47.

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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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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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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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.