Motivational Quotes

Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

Camus, Albert

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

22.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Milton, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

A Course In Miracles

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Serling, Rod

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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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 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

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

Kettering, Charles F.