Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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.

Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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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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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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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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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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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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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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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Elk, Black

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

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

Washington, George

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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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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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The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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

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

Nicols, Peter

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Bible

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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

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

Lennon, John

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Unesco

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero