Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Peace

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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

Carlos Santana

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Truman, Harry S

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

Washington, George

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

16.

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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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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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.

Gladstone, William E.

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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 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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Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

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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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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.