Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is produced by war.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Unesco

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hubbard, Kin

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

11.

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

12.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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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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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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.

29.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

30.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

31.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

32.

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

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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

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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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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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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 rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington, George

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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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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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