Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Thant, U.

Best Quotes about Peace

When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

King Jr. Martin Luther

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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

A Course In Miracles

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Steiner, George

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Dayan, Moshe

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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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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

44.

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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]

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