Motivational Quotes

Peace

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Peace

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dayan, Moshe

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Unesco

11.

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

Lennon, John

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

22.

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Thomas a Kempis

26.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

28.

Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thomson, James

31.

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

Hardie, James Keir

32.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

33.

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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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

41.

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Milton, John

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

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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