Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Peace

Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Anton Chekhov

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Thomas a Kempis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

11.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

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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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Moore, Marianne

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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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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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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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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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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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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

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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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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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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]

Bible

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.