Motivational Quotes

Peace

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Peace

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Moore, Marianne

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

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

Bible

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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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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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

Catherine of Genoa, St.

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

Muste, A. J.

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