Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hardie, James Keir

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Unesco

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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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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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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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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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Milton, John

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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

Hubbard, Kin

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo