Motivational Quotes

Peace

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.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Peter McWilliams

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

A Course In Miracles

One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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.

Gide, Andre

12.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

13.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

14.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

15.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

17.

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

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

Washington, George

19.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

20.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

21.

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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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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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 the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

25.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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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

32.

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

33.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

O'Connor, Basil

35.

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

Dayan, Moshe

36.

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

Lennon, John

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Thomson, James

39.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

42.

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

Lennon, John

44.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

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

Bible

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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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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

48.

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

Bible

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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, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.