Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

- Fulghum, Robert

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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.

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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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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Peace is not God's gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Turkish

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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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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There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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

Anton Chekhov

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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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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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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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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

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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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 with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.