Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

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Best Quotes about Peace

Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]

Bible

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Wiesel, Elie

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

10.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Moore, Marianne

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

Bible

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

14.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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 seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Muste, A. J.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Lennon, John

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

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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

42.

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

Nicols, Peter

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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.