Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

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

Thant, U.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

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

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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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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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

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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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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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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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

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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

William Shakespeare