Motivational Quotes

Peace

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

Best Quotes about Peace

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

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

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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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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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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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Steiner, George

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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Nixon, Richard M.

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

O'Connor, Basil

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Washington, George

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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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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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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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Peace, like charity, begins at home.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

Camus, Albert

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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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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter McWilliams

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.