Motivational Quotes

Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

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

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Serling, Rod

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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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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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.

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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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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb, Turkish

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

Milton, John

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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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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Peter McWilliams

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Allen, James

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I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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

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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.