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

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

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

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.

Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Pilgrim, Peace

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Bible

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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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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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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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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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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

O'Connor, Basil

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hardie, James Keir

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

Unesco

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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lennon, John

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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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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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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

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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