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

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

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

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

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

Hardie, James Keir

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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

Washington, George

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

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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.

Schucman, Helen

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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

Peter McWilliams

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What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

Russell, Bertrand

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

Dyke, Henry Van

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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

Lennon, John

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.