Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Kin

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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

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

Unesco

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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.

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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

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Washington, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Muste, A. J.

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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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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hardie, James Keir