Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Dayan, Moshe

Best Quotes about Peace

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Muste, A. J.

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

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

11.

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.

12.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

13.

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

Dayan, Moshe

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

15.

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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Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

18.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

20.

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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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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Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Buddha

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

31.

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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

33.

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

Lennon, John

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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

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

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

Bible

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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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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

40.

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