Motivational Quotes

Peace

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

- Nixon, Richard M.

Best Quotes about Peace

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

Kempis, Thomas

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

Carlos Santana

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Bible

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

10.

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

Peter McWilliams

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

The peace dividend is peace.

Quayle, Dan

14.

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

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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

20.

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

21.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

30.

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

Dayan, Moshe

31.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Hecht, Ben

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Proverb, Turkish

34.

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

35.

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

Washington, George

36.

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

Dyke, Henry Van

37.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

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

39.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Kempis, Thomas

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

48.

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

Eisenberg, Larry

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.